Category: Short Essay
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An Artist is Anyone Who Creates Art
An artist is someone who creates art. Art is subjective, and is pretty much what you want it to be. There is no requirement for quantity or quality. You can write 1 sentence or 1000. Your writing could be good, or complete nonsense. Who cares? If you take that first step of creating art, you…
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L is for the Love We Must Give Each Other
The most incredible book I’ve ever read is called Man’s Search for Meaning (MSFM) by Viktor Frankl. Frankl is an amazing man – I can’t do his book justice with any summary, so I recommend you read it. MSFM, as the name suggests, is about our endless search for the meaning of life. Frankl was…
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The Trials and Tribulations of Creativity
Why is it so hard to write every day? It’s remarkable how difficult showing up every single day is. Obviously, much (most?) of the world does exactly that – that’s the very nature of jobs, which help most of us survive. I mean the difficulty in showing up for the things that scare us or…
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My One Reason to Write
I feel alive when I write. There is a mix of thoughts and feelings in me as I write – I feel creative, I enjoy the creation, I feel productive, I feel happy, I feel excited, I feel mindful. All those are great, but it is the feeling of being alive, of being excited, that…
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Why I Love Reading
I love reading. I’ve loved it since I was a child. I used to read prolifically then and I read prolifically to this day. Books have always had a magical hold on me, just like I’ve often had a magical hold on them… at the library muhaha >:). It is amazing how words on the…