Although going inward on this leg of the journey, I remain open to partnering with like-hearted writers, artists, agents, editors, and information technologists to bring stories and concepts to life. Please feel free to create and connect by email at any time.

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ALSO, since I have you here. . . How about YOU? May I ask: "Are you keeping your pencil moving or keyboard tapping? Are you keeping those pages turning and your imagination yearning? How is life in the kitchen, garden, workshop, or sewing room these days? Or at the painter's easel? Park? How about the card table or coffee shop? The library, classroom or adventure playground? Or yes, even here on the computer, tablet or smart phone?"

I believe that there is no greater way to come to know oneself and others than through a nurturing process of reading, writing, talking, creating and/or connecting in a myriad of bliss-filled ways. As Einstein said so wisely, "Creativity is intelligence having fun."

Seriously, like the wisest and most wonder-filled have demonstrated throughout global history, following our bliss and doing more of what makes us lose track of time is also what may catapult us into a brighter, happier, more abundant, and hope-filled future. (If not, at least we will have experienced fulfillment and fun). There are so many ways to create and connect the dots of energy, awareness, and understanding! I believe that cultivating this particular head and heart space from cradle to grave is our birthright and a fundamental part of individual human actualization and our collective evolution and transcendence as people.  

Depending upon one's time, place and circumstance, to follow one's bliss may take extra courage and determination--especially as we 'grow up' and succumb to the voices of critics and naysayers. For support and righteous indignation, we need only recall the famous quotation by e.e. cummings, "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and keep fighting.” Add to this the humble, grounding wisdom of Lao-Tsu who knew, "The greatest art seems unsophisticated, the greatest wisdom seems childish." I say: Have at it!

Sincerely, long may you keep your pencil moving and keyboard tapping! Or whatever puts you in 'flow,' bubbling over with confidence, hope, peace and joy! :-)

"In every adult there lurks a child

--an eternal child, something that is

always becoming, is never completed,

and calls for unceasing care, attention

and education. That is the part of the

human personality that wants to

develop and become whole."

Carl Gustav Jung