Michael Mark

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Michael holds his moments up to the light to examine them periodically, wondering at the veined architecture of his past and the roots spreading through his future. He cares about people, and he enjoys spending time in discussion with the deepest questions of the world, engaging with them frequently through the myriad proxies of the everyday-- through his professional interactions, through the eyes of the creatures that populate his backyard, and through images floating back and forth with the muses that pull up chairs beside his heart when he sits down to write. He writes about how it feels to have walked into such a vast field of dancing light and shadow, so unprepared for its brilliance and foreboding.

He is emerging from a time of uncert
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I Place My Hand Upon the Sky

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Why Do I Write?

Writing this first post here as an author gives me pause to consider what I'm hoping to say and accomplish as a writer. Why do I write? What do I hope to give? There are a couple of answers to these questions.

On the one hand, there is the joy of writing for its own sake-- the moments of sitting down to cast my nets into the ineffable that end in encounters with grace, with insight, with the percep Read more of this blog post »
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