| "Think, mull, wander, smell, and listen. Then draw. Yes, there are deadlines. But start with a blank piece of paper, and don’t reach for that trusty art tool. Go for something else." |
| "Nothing can grow until the ground is turned over and crumbled.” From that Rumi poem I took the metaphor of turning it over, with its dual meaning, as the focus for my retreat. |
| An image of the book creator as a factory: a shop floor with conveyor belts, one for each book, each with its own crew of workers on the assembly line. |
