Pay Attention To The Beauty Surrounding You.

Sometimes Grace Is A Ribbon Of Mountain Air That Gets In Through The Cracks.

...[t]here Should Be A Real Sense Of Your Imagination And Your Memories Walking And Woolgathering, Tramping The Hills, Romping All Over The Place. Trust Them. Don't Look At Your Feet To See If You Are Doing It Right. Just Dance.

The Very First Thing I Tell My New Students On The First Day Of A Workshop Is That Good Writing Is About Telling The Truth. We Are A Species That Needs And Wants To Understand Who We Are. Sheep Lice Do Not Seem To Share This Longing, Which Is One Reason They Write So Very Little. But We Do. We Have So Much We Want To Say And Figure Out.

The Truth Is That Progress Is Usually Small And Sneaky.

If You Fixate On The Big Picture, The Whole Shebang, The Overview, You Miss The Stitching.