On Writer’s Block

Today, I have a guest post by the lovely Melisa Marzett!

Writer’s Block (Courtesy: Pixabay)

Every writer at some point relapses feeling so called writer’s block. Writers are extremely sensitive by nature and they tend to think sometimes that they are not worthy

Of Perfection

The Ramones

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you’re too old to play. – Joey Ramone

Of Love and Obstacles

I didn’t go out and seek love….Rumi says we don’t need to hunt for love outside ourselves. All we need to do is to eliminate the barriers inside that keep us away from love. – Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

Read my latest blog post Of Love and The Imagination: https://ofopinions.com/2017/06/23/of-love-and-the-imagination/

Of Music and Dance

Today is World Music Day and International Yoga Day. Now, I don’t know if you’re up for yoga, so I thought we’d do some bhangra – Punjabi social dancing – today to combine music and movement. This track is from the Hindi film Kal Ho Naa Ho, and reworks Roy Orbison’s classic into an irresistible dance number. 

Of Fathers

Father and Child (Courtesy: Pixabay)

I’d love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I’d love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist.

Of Cakes and Destiny

Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb.

Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita

I’ve been eating a lot of the above this week. I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the above too.

Read my latest post Of The Comfort of Strangers: http://wp.me/p3KqvA-2xc

Of Art and Influence

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it. – Patti Smith

Coming up this week: Book reviews on Just Kids by Patti Smith and The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak. Also essay called Of Blogging and Money, to celebrate the third blog anniversary of Of Opinions.

Of Rejection

Bench

One of life’s fundamental truths states, ‘Ask and you shall receive.’ As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection. – Jack Canfield

Of Searching

Confucius

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. – Confucius

Of Art and Isolation

Stephen Fry

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. – Stephen Fry