the writer (me)
A page from Octavia Butler's handwritten notes, circa 1977.
A page from a working draft of Octavia Butler's novel “Kindred,” with handwritten notes and the novel's original title, circa 1977.
The other day I saw a picnic table under a tree, and it stopped me.
God made the tree. People made the table.
It reminded me of what T.D. Jakes once said: God didn’t make tables, He made trees — and He gave you a brain to imagine what those trees could be.
That table was a “creation from creation.” And it’s not just furniture — it’s a setting for life
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Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
The artist prays by creating.
— Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill”
Creativity is inherently anti-authoritarian. As in: to be successfully creative, you have to shed the part of yourself that desperately wants reassurance. It’s only then that you can escape cliche and escape paradigmatic thinking.