Editor's Blog — Author

Real Value

Success and failure both demand we know the source and measure of our value.

William KenowerNovember 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Value, Spirituality, Success, FailureComment

Enough Pens for Everyone

They were full of ink and perfectly serviceable and now they were just gone, disappeared into some domestic Bermuda Triangle.

William KenowerNovember 6, 2019William Kenower, Spirituality, Lack thinkingComment

The Good in the World

I am convinced that most of the good we do, most of the change we help bring about, grows from seeds we forgot we ever planted

William KenowerOctober 21, 2019William Kenower, Writing, SpiritualityComment

A Good Day

The Muse doesn’t care about the outside world. It’s none of her business.

William KenowerOctober 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, The Muse, SpiritualityComment

What a Writer Knows

My interest in following that road is with me from the start.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, SpiritualityComment

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

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

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

New Assignments

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

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

Your Invitiation

You are an equal part of the whole, neither separate from, nor greater than, nor lesser than.

William KenowerJuly 10, 2019Writing, Value, William Kenower, Equality, SpiritualityComment

Why You're Here

I didn’t know that the daily discomfort with which I lived was the difference between what wanted to be expressed and what I was expressing.

William KenowerJuly 8, 2019writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Love, SpiritualityComment

Song of the World

I have never been so quiet as the moment I first heard myself clearly.

William KenowerJuly 5, 2019writing, William Kenower, music, listening, SpiritualityComment

Return to the Well

Live in the world you already know. That world is you.

William KenowerJuly 1, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Evidence, Stories, SpiritualityComment

True Reflection

The space between the cultivated details of every story serves as a kind of mirror.

William KenowerJune 26, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, Past, StoriesComment

Hardly Working

To write a story I love to write, or work a job I love to work, or be with a person I love, is to find the current of my passion and follow it where it is already running.

William KenowerJune 24, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Love, SpiritualityComment

Life's Only Answer

I have been guided through my life by feeling, and rarely by evidence or reason.

William KenowerJune 21, 2019writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, StoriesComment