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on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...

Creative Generosity

Art, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...

Creation in Times of Strife

And then… The slow return to the sense of feet on ground. The slow return to the sound of birdsong, or cars, or laughter. The slow...

Change the Song

What do we do? We change the song. We listen to a different beat. New words. We shift perspective. When I write, I pick a song, put it on...

Art Matters

The café I’m writing in is playing Johnny Cash’s masterful cover of Trent Reznor’s classic song, “Hurt.” It reminds me of an Oxford Goth...

Make Magic, Create Beauty

As a person who has created art of some sort since childhood, and through many life changes, full time work, chronic illness, moving,...

After the Coast

I spent last week in a rented beach house with four other writers. We ate, wrote, wrote, went for walks, wrote, ate, wrote, and slept. It...

Stoking the Fires of Creativity in Times of Doom: Life in Empire

– Tananarive Due Baby steps are hard. But they are deeply important to take. A friend asked recently if I was feeling extra anxiety...

The Woman and the Wasp

Two days later, it became clear as I peered into the slim crevasse: beneath her careful ministrations, creation was occurring. This wasp...

T. Thorn Coyle