Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, graduation, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on May 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“I don’t think fantasy really works except when Gandalf says, ‘You don’t get to choose your moment, you just have to live it… He was right—you don’t get to choose the moment—we’re here, we have to live it… by the time you are my age, a lot will have gone down. I want you to focus on the good and to try and make the good in a team effort.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, 2026 Middlebury College Commencement Address
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, creativity, inspiration, non-fiction, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Today I want to share a fun non-fiction essay by one of my favorite fiction writers, T. Kingfisher. It’s about history and gardening and passion, real-life inspiration for fiction, and heroes saving one small but important thing.
History, Discovery, and the Quiet Heroics of Gardening – Reactor
So what does all this mean, for a writer? Well, it may not be holding the bridge at Thermopylae, but I keep coming back to how many gardeners end up saving a small piece of the world. Whether it’s a food from a lost homeland or a cultivar that is about to vanish from the earth, so often it comes down to one person who kept something small but important from being lost forever.
May we all be so heroic.
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Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, gratitude, Thoughts on May 25, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” —John F. Kennedy
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, rainy day, Thoughts on May 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »
It’s raining today, but whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on me.
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
— Roger Miller
I’d like the first one, please!
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If you’ve ever read a book and thought, “I will never write anything this good,” and feel the urge to give up your own creative efforts, this article may be for you:
The thing every writer needs to overcome – Big Think
It’s common to feel embarrassed, shy, and self-conscious when we are writing. It’s easy to feel the need to be different when someone else has done it so well already. But, as the saying goes, the woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best. So, sing anyway. Sing badly, sing well, sing as much as you can… The point was never to out-sing the nightingale; our “business is to create.”
What also helps? Not taking myself too seriously!
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, Thoughts on May 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ― John Lubbock
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, Fiction, poem, Thoughts, work, writing on May 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Hmm. Maybe writing after reading the news isn’t a great idea? Or maybe it is.
To the Billionaires Among Us
What will you do?
When the skies pour fire onto cracked and desolate earth,
tornadoes skip from your first mansion to your third yacht
and hail plays paddy whack with your bones?
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What will you do
when the oceans rise and the gates fall,
and there is nothing left to consume
but yourselves?
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, creativity, do good things, inspiration, Thoughts on May 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I find this inspiring:
“You don’t do good things because you are a good person. It’s the other way around. You become a good person by doing good things.” — Rutger Bregman
It shows you the path, and tells you that it’s never too late to walk it.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, song, Spring, Thoughts on May 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“A little flower that blooms in May
A lovely sunset at the end of a day
Someone helping a stranger along the way
That’s heaven to me.”
— Sam Cooke
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on May 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.” — Rebecca Solnit
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