What's singing, if not the desire to affect your listener on the deepest level? The longing to express a feeling so profoundly that the Other gets goosebumps, or cries, or smiles with melancholia? A voice so powerful it feels as though it could move mountains. Perhaps that is why I love singing. Perhaps it is because …
First week – One Year Challenge
The first few days of January have flown by. I started the 12-week course The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron last week. The two most important parts of this method are the morning pages—writing three pages each day, first thing in the morning, with any thoughts that may populate your mind—and the artist's date: a date with …
Oxford
Oh, Oxford. You shaped the early stages of my adulthood. My second migration. My third language in which I now dream. The first years of my professional career. The steps one takes with the freedom that comes from financial independence. The routines. The trips around the world. An ambrosial world of light and darkness. The …
About writing
Of course, the audience influences the way and what that one writes. This influence does not come because one tailors one's message to suit what the audience wants to hear. Instead, one writes with a specific audience in mind and therefore expresses the message one wants that audience to receive. It is a gift one …
G. Maria Bencich-Grigore 