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A Life's Worth

The idea that a life is measured in the number of consecutive enlightened years is nihilistic.

William KenowerAugust 26, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Meaning, Life, Spirituality Comment

Something to Love

Just loving something seems so impractical. I cannot see the absolutely clear line between love and my own survival, between love and those numbers in my bank account.

William KenowerAugust 23, 2019Love, William Kenower, Writing, Spirituality Comments

Red Monday

The truth of human experience is that everything feels like something.

William KenowerAugust 21, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Feelings, SpiritualityComment

A Perfect Companion

If you ask those friends or strangers, “How do I get home?” they will begin describing the route they know to the home they know.

William KenowerAugust 19, 2019writing, William Kenower, Stories, SpiritualityComment

Stage Presence

Performance demands you be in the present moment.

William KenowerAugust 16, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Stage Presence Comment

Where We Meet

I always tried to meet people where we agreed, which isn’t so hard when you don’t focus solving the problems of the world.

William KenowerAugust 12, 2019Comment

How To Clear Your Mind

If my mind isn’t busy with what’s going on around me, then what’s been on my mind quickly surfaces.

William KenowerAugust 9, 2019writing, William Kenower, mindfulness, spiritualityComment

Remembering Stories

The storyteller is in this way reassembling what time and the imagination have fractured.

William KenowerAugust 7, 2019writing, William Kenower, Stories, Memory, Andre Dubus III Comments

Choosing Our Games

Making money is a lot like a game we are all made to play.

William KenowerAugust 5, 2019William Kenower, Writing, money, Games, SuccessComment

Good Enough

If I was relaxed, curious, and trusting, not only did good stuff come to me, but I could confidently tell if I was starting to stray off course.

William KenowerAugust 2, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Rewriting, Trust, FearComment

Real Stories

Belief is not complicated or difficult. It is the act of accepting what you already value.

William KenowerJuly 31, 2019writing, William Kenower, Stories, Belief Comment

Making Time

Time has never actually existed, but happiness and unhappiness have. In fact, they are all we really know.

William KenowerJuly 29, 2019Writing, Time, William Kenower, Happiness Comments

Giving Shape

If we are honest, every writer, whether a life-coach or poet, must acknowledge that what they are shaping is not theirs.

William KenowerJuly 26, 2019William Kenower, inspiration, spirituality, Writing Comments

Realists

Learn in your work to see through your pain, to see beyond the veil of suffering.

William KenowerJuly 24, 2019Writing, Reality, perception, suffering, William KenowerComment

Every Story

We always have a good experience together, and the movie, good or bad, serves as the catalyst for those experiences.

William KenowerJuly 22, 2019writing, Stories, William KenowerComment

New Assignments

Your assignment won’t come from you, but it will come to you.

William KenowerJuly 17, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpiritualityComment

Against The Sky

The ease of life is not so simple to believe.

William KenowerJuly 15, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Fatherhood, autism, spiritualityComment

Self Recognition

I felt like I’d been waiting two decades to hear exactly those words from exactly this sort of person, and as nice as it was to hear, it meant strangely little to me.

William KenowerJuly 12, 2019Writing, William Kenower, RecognitionComment