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Real Learning

It was the best possible thing you could do. It was the only thing that mattered in life.

William KenowerOctober 4, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Learning, WorkshoppingComment

The Order of Things

Do not mistake a lack of interest for a lack of capability.

William KenowerOctober 2, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Maurice Sendak, Skill, Craft, InterestComment

Everyone Out

It’s hard to pretend you’re someone you’re not, especially when you don’t realize you’re pretending.

William KenowerSeptember 30, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Armistead Maupin, IndividualityComment

Following Trouble: Why Writing is Never a Problem

The blank page of my life is always asking the same question.

William KenowerSeptember 27, 2019writing, William Kenower, stories, Problems, spiritualityComment

Story Medicine

The job of the storyteller is to hypnotize the reader into forgetting one reality and believing another one.

William KenowerSeptember 25, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, FearComment

Getting What You Love

What I love is so important to me, how could another person get me if they if the stuff I turned to for inspiration and meaning was boring or made no sense to them?

William KenowerSeptember 23, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Beatles, Meaning, LoveComment

Sleeping With Rejection

It is easy to memorialize pain without realizing we are doing so.

William KenowerSeptember 20, 2019Writing, Death, William Kenower, rejection, acceptance Comments

Reliable Stories

The more I tell them, the more convinced I am that stories set in the past are not about the past at all.

William KenowerSeptember 18, 2019writing, William Kenower, Memory, Stories, SpiritualityComment

Victory Smoke

The praise I hoped to receive pleased me as long as one draw on a cigarette pleased me.

William KenowerSeptember 16, 2019Smoking, Writing, William Kenower, Attention, Love, SpiritualityComment

The Dictator

It is a little disorienting to enter the dream of the story I am telling and feel that it is enough.

William KenowerSeptember 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Freedom, DictatorComment

The Hole

The only way to get out of The Hole is by doing nothing.

William KenowerSeptember 9, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Despair, Doubt, SpirituualityComment

Secret Strengths

Strengths look like weaknesses when they’re misapplied.

William KenowerSeptember 6, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Strengths, performanceComment

Words and Deeds

The rate at which I learn something does not make the lesson any less true.

William KenowerSeptember 4, 2019writing, William Kenower, equality, spiritualityComment

Measurable Value

Here it is: Your value is, without exaggeration and quite literally, beyond measure.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Spirituality Comment

Earning Your Living

Nothing can save you and nothing can own you.

William KenowerAugust 28, 2019writing, William Kenower, working, freedomComment

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