Freedom means no restraints. It contains no restrictions on thought or movement. Your choices can be made freely. This lack of structure opens up unlimited possibilities but also new responsibilities. The more options you have the more can go wrong.
Key Concepts: adventure, death, discipline, discretion, emptiness, opportunity, release, security, structure, taboo
Archetypes: airplane, balloon, birdcage, catbird, celery, death, fava bean, feather, ferret, fool, freesia, heather, horse, Pegasus, zebra
Freedom means little or no restraints. Lack of restrictions on thought or movement. Choices can be made, but with obligations or consequences. Big ideas Freedom is an absence and a presence, a gift and a burden. Structure and discipline are keys to freedom. Our opportunities and choices are the greatest privileges most of us have. […]
Freedom universal theme Read More »
At 21, I was full of idealism and ideas. My mind was full of story ideas and projects of all kinds. I had a strong burning desire that I wasn’t going to be wasting time, that I wasn’t going to spend my life doing humdrum work. I made a pledge to myself that I was going
Wasting Time: learning to forgive myself Read More »
Petronius wrote The Satyricon in Latin during the first century A.D., and it is one of only two surviving examples of what literary scholars call the roman novel. This “roman novel” form is not exactly the same thing as a modern novel, as it combined both poetic and prose writing to tell a story. Continuity was not as important,
The Satyricon: first century Roman debauchery Read More »
“This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time
Writer’s Crush: Carson McCullers Read More »
