How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art

I suspect this question is so deeply personal that it’s like a fingerprint: each of us will respond from the life conditions that have shaped each of us, and shape us still.

There is strong folklore about the value of the suffering artist to her art; that dark times allow for greatness. Personally, I’m not so sure it’s a useful way to look at suffering.

I suspect some of us are (more…)

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

Why I Spell covid-19 This Way

Words are a big deal.

No matter how many times we chant―sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me―some part of us knows this is not true.

True, they can‘t break bones, but that‘s because words don‘t operate in the physical dimension. Jump into the emotional dimension and it‘s a very different story.

Centuries ago, words were (more…)