Love your blog. I’ll get back to you re my website, which is currently under total re-construction. Even changed domain name.

J

Recognizing the importance of a balanced educational and experiential program, the Artist Series aims to bring local artists from across the wide spectrum of disciplines to share their stories with our community to serve as inspiration to our children and connect artists back to the roots of the community. By brining successful artists who support public education into an urban setting we hope to raise awareness about the arts and create a stronger community in the Washburn area.

Visit washburnconnections.org to get your $5 ticket. Kids welcome!

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I happened on this lovely blog and I’m so thrilled that my book touched you! Your poem about boiling eggs reminds me of a story. You may remember from the book that I came to the power of poetry through David Whyte. We later became friends and he stayed at my home for a night while giving a workshop in upstate NY. That morning he taught me not about writing poetry, or reciting it, but about how to boil eggs like a true irishperson! To this day, as I lift the egg from the boiling water to catch the exact moment that the liquid on the shell evaporates quickly, I call them David Whyte eggs! Thanks so much for your words and reference to my site.

Before I ramble about the subject, I thought I would check out the dictionairy’s meaning of the word. There are a number of meanings for Inspiration…arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity….a strong creative inpulse…a product of your creative thinking and work…a sudden intuition. There were many more but I think I will just go with these.

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If you have ever picked up a pen and started writing…either a journal entry, a story, a poem etc. , where did you find your inspiration? Or do you believe that inspirations are not necessary to writing? Think about it, maybe we are inspired more than we realize or maybe we just aren’t good at identifying what inspired us in the first place?

Maybe we don’t need inspirations ….maybe we just need subjects. But if that subject becomes the catalyst to our writings, doesn’t it become the inspiration? How can anyone actually define unusual activity of the mind or a stong impulse ? Is it not all relative and so, two people may be at the same place at the same time and be inspired very differently . I suppose you could akin childhood memories to this concept….siblings being at the same place at the same time but remembering very different things or people in a plane crash who after have very different memories of the event. Are inspirations for writing not much of the same?

Have you ever found that something inspired you but only for a short time because some other inspiration came along that was much stronger?

So that makes me think….what exactly has inspired me to write ? Each day I blog, I suppose something inspires me to go in a certain direction. Maybe I should pay more attention to what inspires me…just for curiosity sake. I could make a list of my inspirations. But to be truthful, I am not sure that I would really know what they are or were.

I think it would it be a waste of time to make that list, instead I will just move on and wait for the next…Inspriration to hit… and get writing. What will be YOUR inspiration for today?