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Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Tao Te Ching for Writers: Words into Dust

Sky and earth  reflect eternal values.   Inferior concepts fall away like ashes.   The wind ebbs and flows under the sky and across the land dissolving words into dust.   Don’t talk. Breathe life in. (Tao Te Ching, Chapter Five, Interpreted by Terry Chitwood) Eternal values, like the sun, illumine the land.  Words as […]

Filed Under: The Taoist Writer, Writing Tagged: Tao Te Ching Chapter 5, Tao te Ching for Writers, writer, writing

June 26, 2015

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

A Question of Heart

“A gifted young woman writes a poem. It is rejected. She does not write another for perhaps two years, perhaps all her life” (If You Want To Write by Brenda Ueland, p.8). Are all writers this sensitive? Maybe. Maybe not.  Is this even the right question to be asking? One answer that Ueland has for […]

Filed Under: Transforming Wounds into Words, Writing Tagged: Brenda Ueland, Buddhist Bodhissatva, David Richo, Sacred Heart, write from your heart, writer, writing

March 10, 2011

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Should I Leave a Trace?

The title of the book Leaving a Trace by Alexandra Johnson makes me pause to contemplate its multiple meanings. The word “trace” strikes me initially as a faint line, a light imprint, not of much importance. Should I take my life lightly? Is my life story not important? Is my story lost in a multitude of […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged: Alexandra Johnson, Leaving a Trace, life story, Prometheus, writer, writing

March 3, 2011

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Melting the Ice: Freeing the Writer Within

Melting the Ice: Freeing the Writer Within

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you). In her book, Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal, Alexandra Johnson quotes Franz Kafka: “Writing,” Kafka jotted in his journal, “is the axe that breaks the frozen sea within” (p. 9). If you let your imagination roam freely, you run into the multiple […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged: Alexandra Johnson, Kafka, Leaving a Trace, writer, writing

February 24, 2011

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