The fine art of procrastination in a manicured neighborhood, I remain the apologetic outlier

Thoughts on procrastination, weeding, and art. Because it's spring. And there are gardens ... and neighbors. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-fine-a...

I thank you again!

I am always so surprised when someone discovers something I wrote. It feels — impossible. But there you are. Thank you again.

Oh goodness! Thank you!!

I Stand Here Sweeping Imagining a world swept clean

A song for the simple and regenerative broom. A hope for a renewal, coming. #huskbroom #broom #sweeping #renewal thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/i-stand-he...

Bill is at work (as he will be for quite a while now) on the illustrations that will accompany our upcoming Juncture Workshop Series. I love this one. I love them all. We hope you will consider joining us. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop

An IMAGE intensive with in-depth manuscript reviews, upcoming. #creativenonfiction #memoir #writingworkshop

"Lightning Strikes" is a finalist in the Cleaver Magazine visual poetics contest. More about all the finalists here: www.cleavermagazine.com/poetry/ #visualpoetics #CleaverMagazine

Buried Creek Collective Fostering creative climate resilience for Greater Philadelphia

An exquisite learning opportunity for writers seeking to connect language and love for our environment. It's free. It's all part of the Buried Creek Collective initiative . Learn more here: buriedcreekcollective.com

@buriedcreek @stephanie.feldman

#insomnia

Insomnia when exhaustion reveals the person you might be

Does insomnia reveal or shield our truest self? I wonder about that, here. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/insomnia

Thank you, my friend —

This is what art does When nobility suggests itself within a broken world

This is what we all need today. There is so much difficulty in the world. We're each trying to stay afloat in forces that are overwhelming. We need this art that restores our deep inner spaces @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-nobil...

This is what art does When nobility suggests itself within a broken world

The extraordinary nobility of #AndrewKrivak and #MuleBoy. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-nobil...

My husband illustrates the presentations I give. Here is the first of many illustrations that will support the first in the workshop series, which focuses on seeking and writing beauty. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop

Modern Quitting is quitting proof of failure or an act of self-care?

To quit means to rest. And so, after struggling to do something I am not good at, I rest. At last. And return to me. Thoughts on modern quitting, and new art. #quitting #quilting @andibuchanan.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/modern-qui...

Thank you again and again< Roz —

The problem, Beth, is that you want credit. thoughts on anonymity in the wake of Tantra Song

We want to get noticed for what we create because that's how artists get on in the world, especially as we're all supposed to 'brand' ourselves. But also, we'll make the work anyway because creativity is life. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-proble... @bethkephart.bsky.social

The problem, Beth, is that you want credit. thoughts on anonymity in the wake of Tantra Song

What would happen if we detached our name from the things we make and say and leave behind? A pondering, on today's Substack. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-proble...

Here comes my life, here it comes on the power (and emotional disarray) of juxtaposed images

Thoughts on the juxtaposed image. In life. In story. The @auraframes.bsky.social and memory. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/here-comes...

Look what we've done! xo

@bethkephart.bsky.social always beats me to the post! I am so incredibly happy that Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News is a finalist for this award. A huge thank you to #ForewordReviews. Brava, dear Beth!

So grateful to #ForewordReviews for this honor. So grateful to @tursulowepress.bsky.social for saying yes, and to Jessie for becoming one of my dearest friends in the world.
www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

In a house of few mirrors, I tell myself I am young when you see difference, the world becomes infinite

On wanting more of knowing and more of time and more of the infinite that Japanese names for color describe. #monoJapan thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/in-a-house...

"Every book is, at first, an unproven thing, an improbable fit, an act of heroics set against historical odds. Every book is nothing at all. Until we come along and write (or draw)." ~ Beth Kephart / @bethkephart.bsky.social

Oh my gosh, Dinty. Here you are. And I am ... with you! Thank you.

Orange Jasmine Tree what is shattering? what endures?

What is shattering? What is enduring? What is beauty? What is a poem? thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/orange-jas...

Thank you, Roz —

There's a lot I don't know about you when skating and writing were the same thing, and childhood was forever

When skating and writing are the same one thing. #iceskating #writing #memoir #sewing #substack thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/theres-a-l...

Thank you so much, Roz —