The bluesman Townes Van Zandt told us what matters: “Bukka White used to call them sky songs, ’cause he’d reach up and pull ’em out of the sky. It seems to me they (songs) just kind of come through me almost. Just all of a sudden k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k! (That’s a sound approximating lightning.). Write this down.… Continue Reading >>>
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Fabulous addition to love for Spokescat, Ruti, the Red
Here are remembrances from Carmel, Putter and Mitzi from Jae Peterson: Share on Your Social Media Continue Reading >>>
The Self That Hungers for Eternity: Breakthrough Tip for the week of 4/3/2017
Have you met? You and your self that hungers for eternity? If you know this demanding creature, you know what poet Mary Oliver knows. Emilie Vardaman, my student at the the Sierra Vista Writing Celebration, sent me this remarkable writing by Oliver . I recognized myself and my life instantly in the first paragraph. Do you?… Continue Reading >>>
The Bi-polar World of the Somewhat Successful Writer: Breakthrough for the week of 3/20/2017
The Talker was reviewed in the New York Times a few days ago. Perhaps more accurately it was mini-reviewed by a women who clearly had not read the whole book. Here is the review, followed by my letter to her. It is definitely not professional to send a pissy letter to a slip-shod reviewer, but, then again, I’ve… Continue Reading >>>
Write it Out, Right it Out: Breakthrough tip for 11/18/2016
You know. If you visit this site regularly, you know how and why you are writing, not writing, thinking about writing, afraid of writing, dancing with your writing. Writing is a muscular practice. You are the student and the coach. Write for thirty minutes using this image/these words as your prompt.You won’t get it wrong.… Continue Reading >>>
TOP SECRET MESSAGE, from you-know-who
My dear comrades, Thanks to some of you (If you haven’t voted yet, feel free to joint the ranks of honored human comrades by voting), I continue to be in First Place in the Second Chance no-kill shelter contest to elect a Spokescat for Late for the Train’s new coffee roast. The voting ends on August… Continue Reading >>>
STOP: Breakthrough for the week of July 4, 2016
Write. Step into the danger zone. Send me your writing. Let your heart win. And, here is more wise beauty from Dean Kocjancik: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? The deep thoughts did not leave me to go away with my daily life’s routine. I sat… Continue Reading >>>
The Secret to the Deepest Writing: Breakthrough Tip for the week of 4/18/2016
From the brilliant British actor, Michael Caine : “A lot of actors hold up a picture and say ‘This is me’,” Caine replied. “I try to hold up a mirror that says, ‘This is you.’ What I try to do is obliterate myself and show you someone you can believe in. You see parts of me.… Continue Reading >>>
English FLF* comrades with thumbs at work
Thanks to the human’s obsessive nature, we have been apprised of a brilliant plot on the part of our British comrades to address the atrocity of cats without cream. While few of us comrades have thumbs, our loyal humans do. Put your human to work. All we have to lose are our chains and dry… Continue Reading >>>
Brave Young Comrades: hope for the future
My human likes to look at youtube. Sometimes – especially when there are kittens, she looks and looks and looks. I put up with it, though often I need her to transcribe my message, for instance this week! Here are some new recruits who are ready to kick b–t. They are not fooled – well, at… Continue Reading >>>
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