Andrew Blackman
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
– Meulana Rumi (thanks to Elaine for the suggestion!)
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""Life can only be lived forward and understood backward" - Soren Kierkegaard (just read that in Maps by Nuruddin Farah)" — blackmanandrew
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© 2012 Andrew Blackman
“Central to natural writing is an attitude of wonder.”
~Gabriele Lusser Rico~
Thanks Michelle, that’s a good one! I think wonder is absolutely necessary – if you can look at ordinary things like a child, with wonder and amazement, then you can describe them in a fresh way, and see in them the things that most of us miss through familiarity.