The experience for me was a joyful deep diving, an endeavor of feeling into those deep places within us where Art is born.
Drawing With Words: Artist/Poet Exchange
by LukeSpartacus •
Writing
The Most Important Lesson on the Artist Path
by LukeSpartacus •
No need to worry about your art—care for yourself. But not for yourself—do it for everyone.
Poem: Spring of Whisper
by LukeSpartacus •
Whatever you say in a whisper holds my voice.
Writing: Coordinating the Chaos – Reflections from Then to Now
by LukeSpartacus •
You know that pleasant wave of nostalgia that washes over you when the sun does his bright orange dance behind the three massive volcanoes who hold quorum around here
Why I’ll Never Have a Successful Blog
by LukeSpartacus •
My kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Puttree taught me the most valuable and enduring lesson of all my years of school. She said, “If you had fun you won.”
I put that lesson deep in my heart and I never lost again. But I had a lot of fun. Had to. Didn’t want to lose.
Shhh, Don’t Tell Anyone I’m Blogging Again
by LukeSpartacus •
“You may now use a laptop computer,” the stewardess’s voice announces. But I don’t anymore—a crazy thing for a writer, but I’ve settled into a life without it since my neck went out two years ago. That changed everything. Pain is this brilliant teacher—unremitting, consistent, and unrelenting. “Pain is your best friend,” a monk told…
Emma Larkin on Self-Publishing, Crowd-funding, and her Novel Mechalarum
by LukeSpartacus •
I met Emma Larkin a few years back at a writer’s meetup in New York where she gave a presentation about how she successfully crowd funded the self-publication of her sci-fi novel, Mechalarum. Since then, I’ve been failing to follow up on my offer to review her book, not responding to her emails in any rational…
3 Lessons from 3 Years Freelance Writing
by LukeSpartacus •
Two years ago, from a couch in Brooklyn, things seemed to be simultaneously going horribly awry and working out just splendidly. I was a year into the dream of supporting myself by freelance writing. I had just returned stateside from Kenya, where I covered their 2013 elections as a freelance journalist. But that trip, and…
Poem: Iceland
by LukeSpartacus •
Iceland Sheep speckling green countryside Towns that only know their name The drone of draining Waterfalls stuttering a shutter Black sand dark like Ashen wool of rams Bred for wildness by Frostbitten fingers Lingering in towns that only Know their name Sunset hues at noon Subside at the season’s Undecided hour Colorful painters Do not…
Errupting Volcanoes, Attacking Fruit Flies – Volcan de Fuego 2015
by LukeSpartacus •
Volcano Guatemala – It Could Happen to You The first page of the newspaper feels like oily sandpaper from the volcanic ash clinging to the ink of the lead photo which depicts glowing lava from El Volcan de Fuego, which just blew a plume 600 meters into the troposphere. It adds immediacy to the Prensa…
