One of the weird gifts that my own divorce gave me, decades ago, was the opportunity to re-meet myself as a person on my own. I kept asking myself, really not knowing anymore: What music/TV/etc do *I* really truly like? What don't I? vs. what "we" had liked/not liked for years as a couple. And sometimes the answers were surprising!
July I will be 60. I was taking stock and tried instead of looking at what I wasn't, I looked at who I am. There are a lot of things I wish I had done differently in my life (not gone to as many grateful dead shows and perhaps focused on school a lot better than I did).
However, as Joni Mitchell wrote in The Circle Game
I love everything about this post. Including the fact that I can feel the way your writing is expanding and I can’t wait to read the new works you’ve got ahead of you.
I’m definitely giving a vote for you to try the omniscient point of view with your latest project. I think about it all the time, but nothing my imagination presents me with suits that approach. So far. The book with an omniscient point of viewers I suggest to my students is Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13. What in does with the omniscient is incredible.
I’m mired in ‘why?’ A bit much too. Must try more ‘why not?’
One of the weird gifts that my own divorce gave me, decades ago, was the opportunity to re-meet myself as a person on my own. I kept asking myself, really not knowing anymore: What music/TV/etc do *I* really truly like? What don't I? vs. what "we" had liked/not liked for years as a couple. And sometimes the answers were surprising!
For sure there are things I've already discovered I did NOT really care for and now I don't have to!
+infinity!
July I will be 60. I was taking stock and tried instead of looking at what I wasn't, I looked at who I am. There are a lot of things I wish I had done differently in my life (not gone to as many grateful dead shows and perhaps focused on school a lot better than I did).
However, as Joni Mitchell wrote in The Circle Game
"We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came"
I am trying to not look behind too often!
YES! ONWARD with the bad-assery!
“Eeyore horoscope” is so accurate and amusing and shall become part of my vernacular.
*bows*
(Although I admit part of me now wants to write a horoscope column as Eeyore ;)
I love everything about this post. Including the fact that I can feel the way your writing is expanding and I can’t wait to read the new works you’ve got ahead of you.
I’m definitely giving a vote for you to try the omniscient point of view with your latest project. I think about it all the time, but nothing my imagination presents me with suits that approach. So far. The book with an omniscient point of viewers I suggest to my students is Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13. What in does with the omniscient is incredible.
I’m mired in ‘why?’ A bit much too. Must try more ‘why not?’
I’m saying “why not?” and applying for a job that’s a little bit outside my usual-job-with-words. 😃
❤️