5/23/2023 0 Comments The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp![]() ![]() Or the blank canvas, wobbly moves en pointe, the blurry photograph, the false starts of invention-all have the look of hopeless endeavors. As Jack explains, “the pain of writing stems from comparing your blank screen with the finished pages you see all around you.” We focus so much on the results of someone else’s work imagining a blissful mist of inspiration, that we lose sight of the process. That limiting thinking occurs across the arts and in business. They pick up a professional’s finished work, marvel at its seamless perfection, and think, “I could never do that.” Novices sometimes imagine writing as dark magic, something known only to some mystical inner circle. Jack Hart opens A Writer’s Coach by setting us straight on this issue. You find hours of failure, hard work, and, quite often, a sense of play. If you look closely at those people, we set upon a pedestal as models of creativity. The myth that creativity belongs to a privileged few obscures the importance of skill. Those unicorn people who just knew what to say, how to dance, create art, or imagine a melody-all out of nothing. ![]() ![]() I used to believe that creativity belonged to a privileged few. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Why buddhism is real![]() And what “getting in touch with your feelings” ultimately means is not being so oblivious to them that you get pushed around by them. ![]() So what “not making judgments” ultimately means is not letting your feelings make judgments for you. In reality the concept of hell might have originated in Buddhism because early Hinduism does not seem to have the concept nor does early Judaism or the majority of pre-Buddhist religions, they have only vague ideas and concepts. ![]() Still, you do this not in order to abandon your rational faculties but rather to engage them: you can now subject your feelings to a kind of reasoned analysis that will let you judiciously decide which ones are good guiding lights. So you can stay close to them yet not be lost in them you can pay attention to what they actually feel like. And the reason this is possible is that you are, in a sense, not making judgments-that is, you are not mindlessly labeling your feelings as bad or good, not fleeing from them or rushing to embrace them. It can let you experience your feelings-anger, love, sorrow, joy-with new sensitivity, seeing their texture, even feeling their texture, as never before. ![]() ![]() It is said to be about “getting in touch with your feelings” and “not making judgments.” And, yes, it does involve those things. “Mindfulness meditation is often thought of as warm and fuzzy and, in a way, anti-rational. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Heartsick book![]() When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets of Portland, Archie has to pull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders. He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying that only he can get her to confess as to the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even he knows the truth-he can't stay away. Archie's a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she's right. ![]() She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kind-addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. ![]() Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Bastian all the stars and teeth![]() ![]() Another elements were left out of the movie by limitations of time, as the travel of Childlike Empress looking for the Old Man of the Wandering Mountain, of some scenes relatives to Gmörk. In the book, The Southern Oracle is a living voice carried by the air, being the only way to talk with it rhyming, while in the movie is a blue-colored replica of the two golden sphinxes at the entrance, and in the book, Nothing is a void without a form, not dark or bright, giving the sensation to be completely blind to anyone who tries to see it, while in the movie it resembles outer space with stars at the distance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The so-big limitations in FX and CGI at the time of the filming avoided to make a more accurate adaptation of the novel: on the book Atreyu is member of a race named Greenskin after their skin has a green olive color, that to the touch it resembles grass. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments In the forest of hands and teeth![]() ![]() ![]() The village is run by the Sisterhood, a female religious order of apparently Christian origin, to judge by the mentions of their Scripture and Christmas Eve. The Return (all capitals are the book's), or zombie apocalypse, happened generations ago and everyone has been taught that theirs is the only village left in the world. She lives in a village surrounded by the Forest of the title, where the Unconsecrated, as the zombies are known, are kept Outside by a huge fence. Mary's world is a stiflingly small one, a world shrunk, as far as she knows, to a few hundred survivors of a zombie apocalypse. It was also mine on reading some of the many glowing reviews the book has received since its US publication earlier this year. You know that painful feeling of being seriously out-of-step with the rest of the world? Not being satisfied with what makes almost everyone else content or even deeply happy? That's the experience Mary, the narrator of Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth, suffers through most of the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then he started talking to her, and fell even more in love with her. ![]() A hero who falls (head over heels) in love with the heroine first: Even before he knew her name or her circumstances, Derek saw Clementine walking into their house and was instantly smitten. Very few books have kept me past my bedtime. A few hours later, I was still reading and I ended up finishing Night of Pleasure in one sitting. When I started reading this book, I had planned to read just a few chapters, then put the book down to go to sleep. Enter your link below so we can visit your TBT: HR Edition post for the week! (Then go here to copy the Link code to your blogs.) Head over to Mary Buried Under Romance and Ki Pha of Doing Some Reading for their picks for Throwback Thursday.^_^įellow historical romance readers are welcome to join us. To find out more about Gaelen Foley and her books, click below: I've read other books by this author, including some books from her ongoing Inferno Club series - but I haven't been following her works too closely. ![]() Still, I did appreciate Foley's attempt at world building. But I also remember being confused by the concept of a fictitious kingdom and the different set of rules in that kingdom - it didn't help my case that this is the last book in her Ascension Trilogy and I hadn't read the first two books. I also remember the reason why I got this book: I loved the idea of a lady masquerading as a highwayman. I remembered which bookstore I got this from. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Tom clancy without remorse 2![]() Without Remorse is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Nevertheless, John laying out his plans to form a team certainly foreshadows and facilitates a sequel. John Kelly is a Navy SEAL whose wife was murdered by Russian mercenaries in retaliation for his role in a top secret op. It is loosely based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() However, he adds that he won’t explain the reason why because “it’s personal”, hinting that Rainbow may have been his unborn daughter’s name. Without Remorse is a 2021 action film starring Michael B. ![]() That’s sure to get those familiar with the novels pumped, and he explains that he plans to call it “Rainbow”. He informs Robert that he wishes to establish “a multinational counter-terrorist team made up of US, UK, hand-selected NATO personnel with the full support of the national intelligence services”. John begins to discuss the effects of his wife’s murder and dwells on the details. The scene takes place one year after the events of the film and follows John as he meets up with the CIA’s Robert Ritter he has since become CIA director. Grief-stricken Navy SEAL John Kelly seeks vengeance after a team of Russian soldiers murders his pregnant wife. ![]() Without Remorse hits audiences with a post-credits scene to help suggest that the universe is bigger than just one film. Tom Clancys Without Remorse - Full Cast & Crew. Does Without Remorse set up Rainbow Six? Ending explained ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A great reckoning book![]() ![]() How does the relationship between Gamache and Beauvoir evolve throughout the story? Do they generally behave in the ways you’d predict, or do they sometimes surprise you?.What are the most important things Gamache teaches the cadets? What does he learn from them?.How do you feel about the character of Amelia? Did you see the final words in the book coming, and did they change your view of Gamache or Amelia in any way?.In what ways is the map significant to Gamache, the villagers, and the various cadets? What significance does it have for you?.What do you think of Gamache’s decision to invite Brébeuf to teach at the academy? What does the invitation, and Brébeuf’s acceptance of it, say about the two men?.Aside from evoking the chill of November, what expectations do these lines raise about the story to come? The snow angels were coming,” Gamache reflects in the first chapter. Reading Group Questions for A GREAT RECKONING ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The tea master and the detective![]() ![]() Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. But the Citadel's disappearance still extends chains of grief and regret all the way into the fraught atmosphere of the Imperial Court and this casual summoning of the past might have world-shattering consequences. ![]() Meanwhile, on a small isolated space station, an engineer obsessed with the past works on a machine that will send her thirty years back, to the height of the Citadel's power. But now the empire itself is under siege, on the verge of a war against an enemy that turns their own mindships against them and the Empress, who once gave the order to raze the Citadel, is in desperate need of its weapons. Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai Viet Empire, the Citadel disappeared and was never seen again. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder a perfect meld between cutting-edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly. Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard's award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The divide jason hickel![]() The richest eight people now control the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world combined. Some 1 billion live on less than $1 a day. Today 4.3 billion people, 60 per cent of the world's population, live on less than $5 per day. Since 1960, the income gap between the North and South has roughly tripled in size. It's a comforting tale, and one that is endorsed by the world's most powerful governments and corporations. We have been told that development is working: that the global South is catching up to the North, that poverty has been cut in half over the past thirty years, and will be eradicated by 2030. ![]() In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.' - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economicsįor decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. ![]() 'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. ![]() |