Writing from The Heart: December 2016

Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Monday, December 26, 2016

It is poetry that sets us high above everything else, yet I wonder whether other creatures have poetic thoughts but not the language to express them to us.

Monday, December 19, 2016

An artist should be sensitive in that he should use all of his powers of observation in exploring Nature, society, and himself.

Yet, he should not be sensitive in the sense that he is easily offended by others and closed to all kinds of criticism.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

A Writer's Quirk

I am certain that only I experience this, that, when my keyboard is on my lap rather than on the keyboard stand, I feel more connected to my writing. The physicality of bearing the weight of the keyboard on my thighs and the rhythmic strokes that I feel as I tap on the keys, makes me merge, somehow, with what I am writing.