It's likely that this might not mean anything. Or this might mean everything. It's the degree of separation of acceptance and agreement. When i first started to write, I didnt know I could. Whether I could form sentences simply. It didnt make sense then to think. Then why now? It's the mere audacity of oneself, not even belief. Just the acceptance that you know it and you can do it. It isn't even...
After several offline conversations with and about writers, I thought I'd come out of the closet a bit about my own writing. It seems some people have a perception that a full-time writer simply sits on the sofa daydreaming a few hours before dashing off a bit of a story that they send off to Ms. Editor, thereafter promptly receiving a cheque to cover a new pair of Jimmy Choos. As. If. Ordinarily I...
... and I don't mean the fritters :D ~ "Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" -Richard Bach ~ ~ "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." -Albert Ellis ~ ~ "And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." -Kahlil Gibran ~
The first grown-up book I ever read cover to cover was “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” which is about gulls as much as another cherished book of mine, “Watership Down” is about rabbits, but when you’re a snot-nosed 9-year-old kid still moving his lips as he reads Richard Bach’s anthropomorphic allegory was just what a wide-eyed punk [...]
The new age message and Neil Diamond music seem pretty smarmy now. Edgy is in. Hope is out. Cynical is the new tie-dye. But back in the '70s, I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull , lying on the floor in the living room at my parents' home in Onalaska, Wisconsin, listening to Neil Diamond's musical adaptation at top volume -- and it worked. I cried. I thought lofty thoughts and dreamed big dreams. Years...
Maurice Blanchot observed that there was a tripartite structure to literature: allegory, myth, symbol. A story is allegoric (always already a great big metaphor), mythic (specific; about what the story says it is about) and symbolic (or, think, subversive; about itself, about itself as a text, about itself as a written artefact; writing, on some level, is always writing about writing). A book like...
“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.” Richard Bach Source: Thinkexist.com My husband took this photo at our visit to Gelanggang Samudera Indonesia . Click button to see more watery images or submit your...
Every moment, every second of this life is a gift. In fact, every moment is literally all there is. As soon as the moments have passed they are forever altered by the lens through which we view them. We choose the manner in which we react to the things that happen as a direct result of the choices we made that led us to those things. It's an endlessly fascinating cirle of cause and effect and cause...
Aaron Polson over at his blog 'The Other Aaron', set us all a challenge that had in turn been passed on to him. I thought I would give it a go. It sounded like fun. From a bookcase I've had to pick out one book whose author's last name starts with each letter of my own last name. (If there are no books by an author whose last name starts with a particular letter, go to the next letter.) I haven't been...
Richard Bach, the author of Johnathan Livingston Seagull , also wrote a book called Illusions . In it, the character who is seeking answers to some of life's questions is travelling with a professional barnstormer. The barnstormer is a kind of guru who tries to help him answer his questions. He tells the seeker that he can have anything he wants from the universe, he just has to ask for it. The seeker...
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