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Author Archives: lettersfromheartscontent
Story Trumps Structure (and two other books on writing)
Two years ago, after a career of teaching children how to create, I sat down to make some art myself. Of all the arts I explored—song-writing, fabric art, acrylics, aquarium- and terrarium-making, for example, writing had the most patient and … Continue reading
Drought in a Deluge
How do you bury the dead? The unknown neighbor from somewhere upstream whose body was among the tangled flood debris left in what used to be your yard–what do you do when disaster cuts you off from the services that … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged Black Mountain, Floods, god, Helene, Helene flooding, hymns of sorrow, Psalm 42, Psalm 63, Psalms, Tropical Storm Irene, When Peace like a River
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If We Can Admire Dutch Painting
I’m reading a poem a day, which is like working through the strangest Spotify playlist, curated by someone with curious taste. Some do not appeal, some are incomprehensible, but a few are gems that become my own treasure. Here is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry
Tagged Abstract art, Abstract art brought to shame, Art, Czeslaw milosz, Old Dutch Masters, painting, poetry, postmodern, postmodernism, Realism, reductionism
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Telling a Better Story
I am typing at my desk at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference, in Black Mountain, North Carolina. (If any bad guys are reading this, I’ll have you know I left behind the forester. Don’t let his Santa Claus … Continue reading
8 reasons to keep a five-year memory book
Nine years ago I started my first one-year journal. I’m grateful for eight reasons. 1. Confining thoughts to four, five, or six tight lines requires the writer to be succinct and brief, a habit that has benefitted my writing–and speaking–elsewhere. … Continue reading
Letters from Heart's Content 