Category Archives: Quotes

Memoir: Two You’ll Love

Posted on May 22, 2013 by jzrart

“Through my identification with another girl who could write what I couldn’t begin to think, I discovered a way to break out of the socialized story into something else, something new … my own voice.  I began to see how … Continue reading →

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Truth Or Consequences In Writing Memoir

Posted on May 15, 2013 by jzrart

“I was sitting at a beach with my notebook, and I’m thinking about how to get back into [writing] and what matters to me, and I just sort of self-destructed at Brothers & Sisters. I had written about personal events … Continue reading →

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The Music Of The Wild

Posted on May 1, 2013 by jzrart

“There is language going on out there –the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression. We have yet to become fluent in the language — and music — … Continue reading →

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The Courage Of A Seed

Posted on April 9, 2013 by jzrart

“In nature, we are quietly offered countless models of how to give ourselves over to what appears dark and hopeless, but which ultimately is an awakening beyond our imagining.  All around us, everything small and buried surrenders to a process … Continue reading →

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Living All The Way

Posted on April 6, 2013 by jzrart

“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, … Continue reading →

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Don’ Give Up

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jzrart

I’ve been running into those words often for a couple of days now as I try to get myself back into my daily routine and at work on my memoir.  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in which the … Continue reading →

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Practice … Practice … Practice

Posted on March 30, 2013 by jzrart

“Why is it we understand that playing the cello will require work but we relegate writing to the magic of inspiration? Chances are, any child who stays with an instrument for more than two weeks has some adult who is … Continue reading →

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Books And Words As Containers

Posted on March 20, 2013 by jzrart

“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own … Continue reading →

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What Is The Life I Should Live?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jzrart

“All through our gliding journey, on this day as on so many others, a little song runs through my mind. I say song because it passes musically, but it is really just words, a thought that is neither strange nor … Continue reading →

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Suffering And Wisdom

Posted on March 5, 2013 by jzrart

“ When it’s time to suffer, you should suffer; when it’s time to cry, you should cry. Cry completely. Cry until there are no more tears and then recognize in your exhaustion that you’re alive. The sun still rises and … Continue reading →

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