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Showing posts with label learning to wait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning to wait. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2025

How do you go deep?

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How do you go deep and dive into places that might hurt or feel uncomfortable? How do you feel your way past pain to a new understanding of ...
Monday, December 02, 2024

You need to sit listening to the silence

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You need to sit listening to the silence,  staring at the blank page,  waiting for words to come,  for letters to form beneath your pen. You...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Out of nowhere

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It’s so strange how poems come out of nowhere like clouds passing by like birds soaring overhead fluttering to a branch for just a mome...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

The Paths We Follow

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Each day I sit down to write wondering what I'll discover on the page, not knowing what words will come or where they'll lead me.  I...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Wondering About Words

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On some mornings I sit down to write wondering where words come from and, if they come, why they come to me or to anyone else, really. ...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Waiting

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It’s painful to sit and wait for nothing to happen just sitting and holding a pen and looking at a blank page listening to ...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Writing Happens Like This

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Writing happens like this: You never know what will appear when you sit down to write. You only know you are a little scared that n...
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Bruce Black
Chicago, Illinois, United States
A writer, editor, and teacher, Bruce Black earned his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and now searches for words and stories on Chicago's northern shore, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan. His book for adults, Writing Yoga, was released in 2011, and his stories for children have appeared in Cricket and Cobblestone magazines. You can contact him at wordswimmer@gmail.com.
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