January 29, 2011.
Stillness bypassed my Sunday morning like a breeze you don’t notice because you are out of breath. Except I was in deep sleep breathing. I woke up long after stillness had closed its canteen. Although I realize Stillness is everywhere and available anytime and it is up to us to reach into the hive and retrieve any amount of nectar, certain moments feel like a red carpet walk to the doorway of Stillness. Sunday mornings are such a walk. After noon the zone is narrow even if you are a devout Stillness practioner.
I gave myself permission to sleep in and allow the body to recover. Everything about the status quo seems ... read more »
Tagged life, process of writing, relating, story
Before social media created the forum which allowed the hijacking of the word “storyteller” as a synonym for bloggers and marketers it was indeed a prestigious art form.
What I share below is from an excerpt to a dear friend and author, over 8 months ago.
I think I am ready to discuss this as I understand it. We are all storytellers. We live our lives in and through stories. At the lowest level of consciousness this is gossip and at another form it can be “motivational speaking,” although for the intellectually evolved such speaking may not yield many new results. We tell stories when we come home to our significant other ( if we have ... read more »
Tagged art, authors, process of writing, social media, story
October 31st.
I submit “Kafka” in my defense. The Prague in us all. Art is not spelled E-G-O.
I know many are expecting this piece to be either about Budapest (where I am right now) or Prague (which calls me back) but I apologize in advance: it is not quite about either. While traveling there exists a cognitive dissonance and I am just floating in the experience instead of writing about it. I will write more about Prague, but not now.
If you would like to know what Still Sundays is about, please take a quick gander here and just read the third paragraph. Thanks.
What can I ... read more »
Tagged art, choices, fiction stories, life, process of writing, questions, story, wanderlust
Forgive and do Forget. Robert-Robert Frost: one question you should keep close.
October 17th.
If you would like to know what Still Sundays is about, please take a quick gander here and just read the third paragraph. Thanks.
There is a stillness that belongs only to the sky. It’s the stillness in between latitudes and longitudes. We can only know it from afar.
This Sunday I am sipping tea in a suburb somewhere outside Nashville, Tennessee, visiting my sister and her fiance who moved here recently for a short project. They were on a break for a week so we all flew in from the East and West coasts ... read more »
Tagged choices, random, relating, story, twitter, wanderlust
Below is an excerpt from a short fiction story titled “Red Tape” which I am working on for the collection Augury.
Sharing it here after having discovered @Story_Craft on Twitter this week. They host #storycraft which is a weekly chat on Sundays about the craft of writing fiction. You can check them out here. Their May 9th, 2010 Flash Fiction Challenge, which I took upon myself to push “Red Tape” along, was as follows: Tell a story in 300-500 words of dialogue. Tags and action description are okay, but no exposition! Wordcount: 300-500.
Thanks,
~a.q.s.
Note: It did not make the challenge because it has to ... read more »
Tagged fiction, story
