When You Are Present, The World Is

One Poem Or Story Doesn't Matter One Way Or The Other. It's The Process Of Writing And Life That Matters.

It Used To Be With Chocolate. I Would Put Chocolate In My Studio And Say, "you Know, Nat, There's This Chocolate You Can Have If You Get Over There." And Usually If I Got Over There, I Would Start Writing. Sometimes I Need Get Out Of The House And Go To A Café And Write. Sometimes I'll Write With Other Friends To Get Myself Going. And Sometimes I Just Say "ok, Nat, Enough. Go One Hour. Keep Your Hand Going." I'll Do Whatever It Takes.

Use Loneliness. Its Ache Creates Urgency To Reconnect With The World. Take That Aching And Use It To Propel You Deeper Into Your Need For Expression - To Speak, To Say Who You Are.

This Is Your Life. You Are Responsible For It. You Will Not Live Forever. Don't Wait.

You Live And Then You Die, I Thought. It's Good To Have Some Good Times.