"My God, I'm full of words," cries Warren Bluhm, the author of Gladness is Infectious, How to Play a Blue Guitar, A Bridge at Crosswords, and now Full: Rockets, Bells & Poetry.

"The dance of the pen across the page is a deer prancing in the snow, kids racing through the grass, a performance car zipping across the flats so fast the videographer struggles to keep the machine in the frame."

Here are notes, aphorisms and poems in three mini-collections: "The Creative Soul," reflections on making art and the power of words; "Live Free Or Die," thoughts about liberty, self-expression and emerging from dystopia; and "You Can Do This," encouraging words of finding light in a darkening world.