True meeting true
Creative tension arises in conversation: for instance between the pull to accomplish something and the pull to true meeting true. Here we wrestle if we are to find fertile air.
:- Doug.
Archive for April 30th, 2023
Peering down
Today in my writers group I shared some phrases from Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Doing so gave me to know more about what I was finding here. More than writerly technique. Her stunning juxtapositions and leaps across abysses gave way to peering down into these abysses as we traversed them—and seeing our shared humanity reflected—down there.
:- Doug.
A field with stubble
It is common among us to hear “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.” Its truth may be larger. We search and we make out of twigs and leaves and scurrying squirrels the lessons we seek. We concoct from the bricolage at hand. We are alert for metaphor. A field with stubble from last season after a season of rest is fertile for the chance seed, spore, or threaded life.
:- Doug.
