Yes, to all of this. Thank you again for illuminating what is essential. It takes daily intention to extract oneself from our "me-movie", as Anne Lamott refers to it.
Thank you for writing this. I've never looked at personification this way. The way we're so quick to make everything human, you address it wonderfully.
'Holy fucking shit, I said not long ago, when I listened to my friend tell a story about three kittens she found living in her basement, and how they almost drowned in the middle of a thunderstorm. She heard them. She listened. And holy fucking shit, I said not long after, when I held those kittens in my arms for the first time.' I might actually cry.
"... Tense body, tense mind — I never wondered, until now, how poetry might loosen it ..."
Timely post. Thank you.
thank you, Amanda!
Yes yes yes to the Not Abstract, to listening for the specific, for the particular. Beautiful essay, yet again.
thank you always, Roxani!
Yes, to all of this. Thank you again for illuminating what is essential. It takes daily intention to extract oneself from our "me-movie", as Anne Lamott refers to it.
love that from Lamott -- thank you, Leanne!
I needed to read this. Thank you!
always welcome! thank you for reading!
Thank you for writing this. I've never looked at personification this way. The way we're so quick to make everything human, you address it wonderfully.
'Holy fucking shit, I said not long ago, when I listened to my friend tell a story about three kittens she found living in her basement, and how they almost drowned in the middle of a thunderstorm. She heard them. She listened. And holy fucking shit, I said not long after, when I held those kittens in my arms for the first time.' I might actually cry.