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Styles of Creativity
“The Great Lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary. That it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”
~Abraham Maslow
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Galactic
Sitting out in my chair near Linda’s garden
a mixture of flowers and vegetables, pink iris,
wild poppies, roses, blue salvia and veronica
among tomatoes, green beans, eggplant and onion.
I think that I sense the far-flung galaxies
and hear a tinge of the solar winds,
maybe not possible but I think it so.
With so many infirmities I await the miraculous.
Galaxies are only grand thickets of stars
in which we may hide forever they say.
Where is my dead brother I want to know?
The universe is wilderness. No one answers the phone
because no one has hands, just minds.
The hands have been forgotten back on earth.
— Jim Harrison
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But a writer who has that special way of contemplating things, and who knows how to give artistic expression to his…
