Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • A deal with yourself

    My longtime friend and artist Stephanie Barrow spent last year making videos about making art. She made a commitment to herself to do it and she followed through. I love that. Today she posted a video about what she learned from a year of meeting that personal commitment. Besides the window into her vibrant art…

  • In praise of daydreaming

    …or why I love the beach. Watching the endless variety and shape of crashing waves. Pondering how the ocean hurls massive tree trunks well beyond the highwater mark. Discovering the strange gray rock shot through with thin white in the shape of a heart. Oh, wait is that a whale spouting? Finding just the right…

  • Frost on roses and swan

    A small grocery store (of the variety you see in New York City neighborhoods, or in Paris for that matter) is six blocks from our house and it has a full complement of the foods we buy. It drew us out this morning, on the hunt for shallots, garlic, onions and green beans. Despite the…