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The fall brings in fabulously moody weather to the Bay Area. The fog lingers long into the morning, wispy, timeless, pregnant with droplets of ideas, stories, epic dramas real, imagined, or experienced, all of the poignancy of the pain and pleasure of life breathing through a heavy yet weightless phenomenon of nature.
This is the heart of romance.
I'm not talking puppy love or the clichéd trysts we see on TV. This isn't about dating or dinner-and-a-movie. This is the kind of romance that pervades your very soul, that soaks through your skin into your bones and colors the way you see things forever. It's painful, it's ecstatic and it's wildly overpowering.
And when it burns away with the noonday sun, you feel profoundly refreshed, re-inspired to take on the day with a longer, deeper, steadier purpose. For once it enters your soul, it never leaves.
As a sculptor friend of mine, Lila Goldner, said on my Facebook page, "The breath of the Earth is always inspiration for those who are breathing with her." Beautiful. Thanks Lila!
You just can't have romance without fog.
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How many of you listen to music? OK, dumb question. LOL. But how many of you WRITE to music? I don't mean blasting your favorite rock tune while you punch out the requisite emails at work, I mean write to music.
Poetry, prose, short fiction or a novel, non fiction business or non fiction travel, or perhaps a love letter on a lusciously foggy morning. The kind of writing that expresses who you are, the knowledge or ideas you want to share, the legacy you want to leave for the world.
Some writers like silence. Some prefer cafés or the open air of parks or gardens. Others like to write on trains or by the coast, enthralled with the hypnotic sound of the train moving over the rails or the waves thundering ashore.
I like all that too, but music takes me deeper. It takes me to that place of pure ideas, of raw inspiration, where words have not yet been formed.
Not to mention it's a guaranteed writer's block breaker, any day.
But it can't be any music. The chosen song has to resonate with the essence of the story I'm writing. The melody rides the same wave as the plotline. So a short story about the Catholic faith will have a different "creation soundtrack" than a novella about a Spanish king.
Write me if you write to music. We can share play/write lists.
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Yes I know, this eLetter is about 2 weeks late. I got lost in the fog... that and in last month's travels, talks about sacred time (which is the absolute best way to miss any self-imposed deadlines) and an unexpected Stanford reunion.
September was full of travel: New York, New Mexico, Los Angeles. In last month's eLetter I couldn't say a whole lot about the Fashion Week event where my work was featured, but now that it took place, I can share the deets: it was the official launch of CLEANSE, a health and wellness organization created by model Anne-Marie van Dijk.
Giftwrapped with strands of plant fibers, my short stories were nestled in among the organic essential oils, lip balms and other natural goodies in the gift bags. Nothing like a little serious fiction while you moisturize!
From all of the planning and preparation, deciding which book covers to feature in the event video, the last-minute edits to Anne-Marie's speech, to watching the last guests file out of the lounge late that night, it was a long but exhilarating day.
Check out images from the event!
Earlier this month, on the 4th, I gave a talk about living in sacred time in the context of the Mayan Calendar at the East West bookstore in Mountain View. As any newly published author would attest, there were bountiful butterflies aflutter about whether anyone would bother showing up. People did bother, and in a fairly large group to boot. The Q&A started on impulse, long before I certainly was planning on it! My sincere thanks to all who came, it was a great night!
What's next? See below:
First, a period of NO travel so I can focus on my next several works.
Second, on Saturday, November 3rd, at 8am PST, I'll be hosting a virtual panel of authors to talk about the post-2012 world, including Dr. Jim Young and Dr. Mark Van Stone. This is connection with Dr. Young's anthology titled "2013—The Beginning is Here" and our work on the Mayan Calendar Portal. We'll discuss what the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar means to modern society and how we can each co-create a better, safer, healthier world.
If you'd like to participate in the call, email us at the MCP with "RSVP 2013" in the subject line. There is no fee for this event.
Third, December brings more travel, but more about that in the next eLetter (if I tell you now, where would the mystery be? A writer can't just give it all away at once...!)
For more on my talks and presentations, visit my author's site.
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