musings

Degas once said, “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” I can’t help but agree with this statement. I always wonder why that is. This statement could be easily applied to any form of art. I tend to say it especially for writing (because I’m a writer). People often ask me why I have trouble writing my stories and I always tell them…

“Love draws our original nature back together; he tries to reintegrate us and heal the split in our nature.” Plato once wrote that man, in his original state, was a creature with two heads, four arms, four legs, and was very powerful. Fearing man’s power, Zeus, the Almighty God of the Gods, split man in two, condemning man to be half of what he should have been, causing him to spend the rest of his life…