Musings

Hello Dear Friends: Autumn is upon us. This is a time for slowing down, letting go and going inward. I’m currently living on Beals Island in Maine. Beals is a true Downeast fishermen village. Weathered men in coveralls work the docks all day, catching lobster. The house Connor and I rented is surrounded by frigid […]

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin This book isn’t about Rubin’s life as a music producer. It’s not about his catalogue of work ranging from Neil Young to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This is a book about tapping into your creativity and it’s written for everyone. Each page contains a […]

“co-written by Lela Tuhtan & Amy Jin” It’s a relentlessly sunny afternoon in LA. About a hundred Hollywood writers are stomping down Sunset Blvd in front of the Netflix office, tenuously holding cardboard signs, striking. Cars drive by, honk, and the group is enlivened. The writers span a gamut – young, parents with children, alone, […]

In the book, Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimerer writes about our false sense of separation from all living things. She says we refer to birds and grass and sky as inanimate objects.  That bird, it’s singing; the grass, it’s green; the sky, it’s clear today. Imagine speaking of your grandmother this way: dear Nana, it […]

Have you noticed this time is ripe with creative expression? That it’s a time rife with suffering too? Our struggles seem to catapult us into transmutation, like soil composting rotten scraps. It all has to go somewhere, these widespread atrocities, these mundane chronic aches and pains, the parts of ourselves most shameful. We have to […]