Microscopic Word

For my money, you won’t find a better book on writing than Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

Send your camel to bed. As it turns out I’d always misheard this line as “sing your camel to bed,” which sounds so much more interesting, don’t you think? I can’t believe this song was recorded in 1973 and that I remember it so vividly. I’m officially older than old.

I don’t have many rules about my collage process, but one that I stick to pretty hard and fast is that I don’t use words. But I found this image, and it was just too damn perfect.

Love recognizes no barriers.

It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

― Maya Angelou

If yesterday was all about Miami, my birthplace, today I’m feeling wistful for my second home, Massachusetts.

A Split Enz song and an avocado. That’s what inspired today’s collage.

I didn’t think that this Go Play Project would turn into an homage to Ann Patchett, but here we are again

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Edith Wharton, “Vesalius in Zante”

In “The Getaway Car,” Ann Patchett writes one of the most uncannily accurate descriptions of the writing process I’ve read.

And I love what I do, but the idea of a little creative project—that’s not writing-related—that I could bang out every day for a month… I’m in.