Light – Shining

In the mailbox this Monday after the Equinox...

“I think I am a devotee of poetry in large part because it refuses paraphrase, has little interest in good manners, and doesn’t have a dress code.” – Wendy Videlock

Today is the 134th anniversary of the birth of T.S. Eliot in St. Louis, Missouri. As famous as he was/is – as the length of the bio posted on the Poetry Foundation website might attest – he's also a good example of the rare poet (Robert Frost included) who found in his lifetime both 1) publication and 2) notoriety (or success – depending on your source), and provides a preface to the following helpful reminder by Georgia O'Keeffe. Ms. O'Keefe, a painter as you may recall, offered some poetic advice for all creatives: read on:

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…” – Georgia O'Keeffe

"Patience is not something you develop out of choice; it’s something you develop because you see nothing else works." – Ram Dass

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.-- Anne Lamott