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Todd Crawshaw

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in Berkeley, California, The United States

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I'm a visual artist. By day, a graphic designer, by night and early morning, I'm a writer. For me, creative writing is a visual art, using line upon line of symbolic code to light up our neurons and transport us elsewhere. Words are like colors. They can be shaped, textured, and tinted with nuance, exposed into lightness or darkness. They heal. They cause pain. Words are complex instruments charged with poetic ambiguity. They trigger emotional collapses - a catharsis, an epiphany, a shuddering release of tension that comes in a warm torrential rush. As well, they can alight, arriving delicately, as shimmering and magnificent as a butterfly emerging from its own womb. Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules, when uniquely linked, wor ...more

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I have read over 1,000 novels, but who's counting. As I'm guessing many who have signed onto GoodReads have read a significant number of books too. Those I selected as "read" signifies the novels that, for me, are standout achievements and more recent compared to such classics as War and Peace, The Odyssey and Moby Dick. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to include To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Read more of this blog post »

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Todd Crawshaw rated a book it was amazing Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An amazingly beautiful story. One of the best novels I have read of late.
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Todd Crawshaw rated a book it was amazing Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles by Mark Rozzo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This strange tale which held my attention page after page was intriguing and inspirational.
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DEATHLIST is a fantastic metaphysical satire on the theme of our existence. Why are we alive? Why do we die? What is the purpose of being here? Death, the main character, is portrayed as a gorgeous woman who confronts God to inform Him, “I QUIT!” She ...more
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On a small planet called Earth, situated in a lonely part of the universe, is an insignificant form of life called humans. They happen to be the dominant inhabitants of this water-logged world and are a disgusting, self-centered species of midrange i ...more
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“The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

tags: beauty, life-lessons, river

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“Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules,
when uniquely linked, words form a DNA
of indelible visions.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

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“Once you learn to listen and hear the notes clearly, then you will see the rainbow.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Portrait of a Rainbow as a Young Man:

tags: music, notes, rainbow, vision

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“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”
― Jim Morrison

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“Like atoms begetting atoms that beget molecules,
when uniquely linked, words form a DNA
of indelible visions.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

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“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

tags: poetry

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“The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.”
― Todd Crawshaw, Light-Years In The Dark: StoryPoems

tags: beauty, life-lessons, river

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“I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.”
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tags: existence, inspirational, life, love, reality, zen

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