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Todd Crawshaw

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in Berkeley, California, The United States

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I'm a visual artist. By day, a graphic designer, by night and early morning, I'm a writer. For me, creative writing is a visual art, using line upon line of symbolic code to light up our neurons and transport us elsewhere. Words are like colors. They can be shaped, textured, and tinted with nuance, exposed into lightness or darkness. They heal. They cause pain. Words are complex instruments charged with poetic ambiguity. They trigger emotional collapses - a catharsis, an epiphany, a shuddering release of tension that comes in a warm torrential rush. As well, they can alight, arriving delicately, as shimmering and magnificent as a butterfly emerging from its own womb. Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules, when uniquely linked, wor ...more

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I have read over 1,000 novels, but who's counting. As I'm guessing many who have signed onto GoodReads have read a significant number of books too. Those I selected as "read" signifies the novels that, for me, are standout achievements and more recent compared to such classics as War and Peace, The Odyssey and Moby Dick. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to include To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Read more of this blog post »

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“The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

tags: beauty, life-lessons, river

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“Maybe death is just another dimension of life.”
― Todd Crawshaw, The Center's Edge Revisited

tags: death, life, reincarnation

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“Once you learn to listen and hear the notes clearly, then you will see the rainbow.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Portrait of a Rainbow as a Young Man:

tags: music, notes, rainbow, vision

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“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”
― Jim Morrison

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“Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules,
when uniquely linked, words form a DNA
of indelible visions.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

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“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

tags: beauty, life-lessons, river

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“I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.”
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