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Emails and calls to return, prep and marking and other paper work that never ends beckons. And yet. I need to write right here right now.
"Lose that sense of loss - you have gone and lost something else." - Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories, pg. 52 I read that while waiting for the Motzai Shabbos train home. Striking. No?
Last night, on the phone, friend of 32 years called me an extrapolater extraordinaire. It was a compliment about how I read people from a little that I'm shown and told. I'm thinking that one over.
Kenny Loggins is being interviewed as I write this. he went through years, recent years, when the record companies rejected his offerings. He decided to quit. His son heard this - his seven year old son. The kid wouldn't explain further. The boy just cried. Kenny's wife prodded the kid and got him to admit his theory that, "If daddy stops making music he'll die." Kenny heard this and realized it shouldn't be and really isn't about the money. Making music is about doing what you love. And that keeps you alive. I am having a Mister Rogers moment:
What do you love doing?
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 7:40 AM
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I love reading. Thank goodness I am in a profession where that is expected of me! I cannot imagine life if I were not able to read. It is also a bit of an anti-social pursuit, reading, but I do spend time with friends and loved ones. Not as much time as I spend reading, though ...
Cool. What have you read lately? Reading is a major part of my life. I read slowly and carefuly...
My answer to the question is the post's title - this, i.e. writing.
i love writing and i hate feeling guilty about not cleaning my house. i do appreciate order and when i am "in momentum," I love the feeling of "getting organized," but I am not so good at structuring myself. i love writing in a clean and orderly house.
I also love learning.
Interesting Lavender, thanks for sharing. I don't know where it is, I once posted about a published author who feels she needs to let the orderliness of her home go and that it's worth it. I also love learning and writing. I like being in a clean place,and I can even enjoy cleaning if I get into that zone. Usually I'd rather be writing than cleaning. I just came home to a cleaned apartment and it's like an angel came and performed a miracle.
Anne Lamott said that when she first started writing she couldn't write if there was a dish in her sink. Years later, after she had matured as a writer, she found that she could have written if there was a dead horse in her sink.
Sharon
What am I reading? Hmmm. I am always reading several books at the same time. I am reading a book on the life of Moliere printed in 1923 (I love old books, the old-fashioned language, their smell...). A recent book on food in Shakespearean England, one on digital communication and a batch of medical magazines from the early 1970s I bought for pennies at a second-hand bookstore. Plus a book of Nabokov´s essays on Russian literature. As you can see, I read pretty much anything!
About an organized household I have to agree that at a certain point, as long as it is "clean enough," one should let go. It doesn't hurt to do that sometimes. Life is too short already as it is, sometime I learned after my mother died. Better to enjoy life than focus on petty details that won't make us happy nor cause any harm if left alone ...
thank you, miss trudy
Sorry, I lost track of this post - thought I'd answered.
Thanks for the Lamott quote Sharon It's wise. Or is it? I struggle with that - is it ever OK to ignore a dead horse in one's sink?
Thanks for sharing what you read Miss Trudy.
Thanks for being here Lavender garden
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