Creative Transformation: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher


The Call One of my first big creative adventures came in 1994. I was living in Chicago and had just received a fellowship for a Master’s program in Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College when I got the call. The intuitive calling, which came through my morning writing practice, was to leave Chicago and move to LA. I had no rational explanation, no job, no place to live in LA and only one friend there. I made my living as a writer, but the calling was not to write in LA...

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The infinite creative power of Chaos


This has been a tough week for me.  I could cite circumstances and reasons, but the real difficulty has come in my response to them. So I’ll just go directly there, and save us both the boredom. One of the most intimate pieces of advice I’ve ever received about writing (and it holds true for just about everything else in life too) is: “You can’t take someone where you haven’t been yourself.” I guess that little ditty sits at the heart of what I’m up to in the world. It’s...

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