After The Final No

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Julie Tallard Johnson

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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. – Wallace Stevens I led my first book, Hidden Victims Hidden Healers with this verse from Wallace Stevens. I chose it to remind myself, and the reader, that there is a yes there, somewhere. You know as well as me, life is full of various versions of “NO:” rejections, pit falls, mistakes, losses, disappointments, misses, and more rejections. With the above book it took three years to find a publisher and I could have wallpapered my … Continue reading →

Finding What We Already Possess

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Julie Tallard Johnson

Truth is within ourselves, it takes no rise from outward things; whate’er you may believe there is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness; and around, wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, this perfect, clear perception which is Truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it and makes all error; and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. Robert Browning, from “Paracelsus” I have written in journals since the age of 16, which is … Continue reading →