On With the Dance
I was reading the Author Acknowledgements in Nicole Yoon's newest book, INSTRUCTIONS FOR DANCING (yeah, I really do read that stuff). One bit that snagged my thoughts was this riff about writing in the middle of tremendously important life-changes:
- "Writing has always saved me, and I thought it would again....It turns out I couldn't WRITE my way through this period -- I could only LIVE my way through it."
Hmmm.
It's real, that. I am noticing that ever since I started writing my LIFE-BUILT POEMS: Living Out Loud blog I am looking at assorted life-events in a more writerly sort of way -- as an observer as well as a participant in the messy things.
I am getting better at looking at the whole thing as just another Never-ending Story, I suppose.
The coolest part of that is that you get very aware that these stories happening around and to you have innocuous beginnings and messy middles and then they end. Then a new one starts up. The mess morphs and there's hope that one of these days you'll get rid of the durned cocoon and emerge as a butterfly or moth or something.
One of the side-effects of blogging, it seems, is that your life turns to story-fodder.
Cool!
Hope you're making interesting discoveries in your own journeys too.
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Our lives are our stories, and we can choose to view them with disdain or wonder.
How we relate those stories is what makes them relatable to everyone else. If we catch the right theme, our lives will interest many.
It is cool
That bit about the butterfly got me - I loved it. Its been almost a year and I have been learning, morphing, learning, morphing nonstop 🤣 Now that a year is up, I really hope the butterfly in me comes to the fore so I see some much needed results.
Thanks for the share, Netta. Let our butterfly selves turn out both beautiful and resourceful providing help and the green 😜
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Yez, indeed, Netta, but keep on doing what you do!
Jeff😎
Thanks for the encouraging words, Jeffrey....
-- Netta
You're very welcome, Netta!
Jeff