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Monday, April 16, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Flight, an Abstraction v2, Rio Grande River, Paseo del Rio, Elephant Butte NM, April 2, 2012
Flight, an Abstraction v2, Rio Grande River, Paseo del Rio, Elephant Butte NM, April 2, 2012

Night camp

Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Give it, Give it All, Give it Now

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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