Tag: interest

  • The tragedy of modern life

    “… a tragedy of our modern life is that everything is interesting but nothing becomes deeply important.” – Walker Percy We like to dabble, to check things out, to explore what’s new and novel.  But when we get distracted by the merely interesting – and there is plenty of it – we lose focus on…

  • The Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer

    It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dreams for…

  • Doing What Feels Right (Preface)

    As a preface to my Doing What Feels Right, I should explain the following. I’ve identified two strong character traits have prevented me from living this way. 1. As a child, I was far more interested in accuracy and objective reality than emotion and subjective reality. I believe emotion was a flawed compass and a…

  • How to Sell a Book — Help me!

    Sales is imperative. It’s prevalent in all aspects of life, but here I’d like to focus on how it will affect my book and where you come in. Furthermore, I’d like to focus not on selling my book to publishers, but focus on selling content to readers. I don’t want to fool anyone; I want…

  • LIFE: Concept for Book Series

    This is a concept outline for a book series that’s been floating around in my head in many different forms. This rough draft of my intentions is finally being committed to paper, and blog. I’d like to start sharing my ideas for the world, with the world, in hopes that I’ll get feedback or at…