TAKE THE P L U N G E
“True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.” -Erwin McManus, The Artisan Soul Let us not be confused, creativity is not a gift given to the rare few. Rather, it is a rare few who take the risk to be creative. It’s as if we’ve been playing a […]
THE ROAD TO M A S T E R Y
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must […]
G Y M CLASS HERO
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […]
LITTLE MS. H A P P Y MEAL || 3.17.15 ||
Happiness Is A Day With You When I’m with you, I don’t need a whole lot. When I’m with you, We make due with what we got. When I’m with you, You make me a little better When I’m with you, I stop counting the hours of the day. When I’m with you Everyday is […]
COMING OF AGE || 24 ||
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” –Douglas MaCarthur This year, I truly felt a sense of “coming of age,” which I regard separate from “growing up.” This is because characteristically, I will […]
THE SIREN’S CALL
THE SIREN’S CALL (A modern response to an ancient tale) Run in search of shelter The vast waters call upon As a means to escape the welter, I often become withdrawn . . . A pattern I reprise A constant need to roam Yet free may I swim, in his aquamarine eyes, A place which […]
The Wanderess
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.” – Roman Payne Arsenic Magazine Feature Photographed: Ev Marquee Hair/MUA: Daisy Palos Elysian Park, Los Angeles. January 2014 As snow falls in New York, it seems as if Summer has […]
