Credo

This list grows every now and then, mostly in bursts.

1. Words are slippery.
2. People are imperfect.
3. Compassion is a political act.
4. Empathy is impossible but necessary.
5. Solitude is all there is.
6. Writing is a music that chimes or doesn’t.
7. Writing is a net around the inchoate.
8. Writing lets in (transitive and intransitive).
9. Patterns must be made and found.
10. Good writing has a pulse that can be felt beyond itself.
11. Writing is a jazz around the business of living.
12. Drama is everywhere, but mostly hidden.
13. Dialogue is political pinball. It skirts and shoves.
14. Words are flags stuck into experience.
15. Play is a forgotten freedom.
16. The imagination is not a place of safety.
17. Feelings are thoughts with an agenda. 
18. Thoughts are feelings with an agenda.
19. Books are wearable heads.