Part of my morning check-in with myself is to freewrite for about ten minutes sometimes using the writing prompt in the image below. This is taken from Gail Sher’s zen-inspired essays in the book One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers   I write in my writer’s notebook, scribblings in image below.  You will…

How did this? Become this? We Are Vessels of Surprise May you be surprised. May your quotient of surprise satisfy like enough deep sleep. May your hour of surprise be nearly intolerable and almost impossible to sustain May that be OK. OK? OK. So may you tell your own dumbstruck self, “OK? OK.” #smallpoems And…

  Books, songs, art, recipes, and so media in general are vessels for surprise…that is if you are open to the idea put forth by David Bowie in his interview with Charlie Rose and Julian Schnabel, “It’s only when you start to move very slightly out of your depth and you feel you’re a little…