rivercrow

In Jungian theory, we pass through two adulthoods. The first adulthood consists of our moving within the constraints of our understanding of adultness. Our understanding is based on what we see in those we view as adults–we accept or reject the models presented, but we work within the influence of those models regardless.
Not all people […]

As usual, a case of the idiot at the keyboard. Silly Crowsie!
Make yourself a user account if you wish.

Part of what I do for a living is write policies.
The mission this week is to bang out a preliminary policy covering personal employee blogs. Common sense rules:

Behave yourself
Act responsibly
Credit sources
Thumper’s Rule (”If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all.”)

Amazing how many people still feel they are anonymous on the internet.
Words of […]

Novels don’t write themselves, folks.
Wanna write one? Do it. Really.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is coming up. Fast.
Get ready.

Writing has never been optional for me, really.
Not to say I haven’t gone with long dry spells. Nor that I have never turned away from the page in disgust or apathy. But I find writing to be so essential to the core of me that when I am not-writing, my soul and spirit wither. I […]

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
‘I love her for her smile…her look…her way
Of speaking gently,… for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or […]

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you […]