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The Art of Brevity
Because happenstance—in life and art So many things in life happen randomly. One night in 2010, my friend Jake posted a link on Facebook to nine…
Grant Faulkner
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Struggling to read
Struggling to be
Grant Faulkner
Dec 26, 2022
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Blowing things off
Because the best holidays are the ones you make for yourself.
Grant Faulkner
Dec 18, 2022
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Will the truth set us free?
If everyone found a way to speak their truth (an unadulterated, pure truth), I’ve always wondered how that would change the world. Questions to ask…
Grant Faulkner
Jan 1
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The Art of Brevity: Capturing the Essence
“Blessed be moments, millimeters and, even humbler than these, the shadows of all tiny things.” —FERNANDO PESSOA I’ve been re-reading the novel Snow…
Grant Faulkner
Jan 22
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The Art of Finishing
Finishing is its own special kind of gift
Grant Faulkner
Nov 27, 2022
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Pushing glaciers
And meditating on impatience
Grant Faulkner
Jul 31, 2022
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The journal as vessel of being
and disappearing
Grant Faulkner
May 29, 2022
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Second place: A different kind of winning
I wasn’t supposed to be in first place. I’d never been in first place that late in a cross-country race. Perhaps I’d never been in first place in a race…
Grant Faulkner
Sep 4, 2022
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For goodness sake
I’ve often said one can’t go through life as a writer without having at least one devastating experience with a mean-spirited teacher, classmate, or…
Grant Faulkner
Jul 17, 2022
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... let there be rest
I recently read a tweet by a person pondering how to start getting ready for National Novel Writing Month (the challenge to write 50,000 words in 30…
Grant Faulkner
Aug 14, 2022
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What is success?
It's the most important question.
Grant Faulkner
Dec 4, 2022
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