Tanya your words…they for straight to my heart. I have such an emotional response. To be mentored by you, to have your generous and informed feedback, to be part of this incredible project you have set up.. And something is really shifting in me, something is starting to really accept my writing self, to honour her, to embrace that ident…
Tanya your words…they for straight to my heart. I have such an emotional response. To be mentored by you, to have your generous and informed feedback, to be part of this incredible project you have set up.. And something is really shifting in me, something is starting to really accept my writing self, to honour her, to embrace that identity. And I couldn’t have done it without you. Can I say queen? Because I want to say queen.…
You can say queen, but you know I think I will smile and shake my head. I'm too homely, too rustic, to be that, and I wouldn't wish to be anyway. I think of myself - now you've sort of asked me - as the first person to put a log on a fire in a clearing I've made, while knowing it won't burn long or bright unless others come along and place their own stories into it. I like thinking of this place - like the creative confidence thread I'm running all year on Sharon Blackie's Hagitude program - as a communal fire in a clearing because others are around it, meeting, talking, listening, even when I'm not there myself.
I love what you bring to our project here. You are brave, brilliant. A born writer. Although I don't want to diminish all the reading and thinking that I know you've been doing all these decades...
Hi Tanya…been meaning to reply to this post for a while, and fretting about it. I love the way you describe what you do. All I was trying to express was the utmost respect I have for what you are doing with The cure for sleep. It is so beautiful. I am happy to be in the clearing with you and all 5he other amazing writers. Thank you. X
Kerry, I'm so sorry. My response to your kind - and meaningful words - was not the one I'd usually give. Which is - as I'm able to say now - simply and wholeheartedly this: Thank you. That's a moving way to be described, to be thought of.
And I realise that the day that gift of words from you came through was in a week when I was feeling very unsure of my life and my use now that the book was published and the last advance paid so that I'd gone temporarily deaf to the good in what I do. Thank you for reminding me that the space I've made here and the mentoring I do has purpose and value and is not at all tied to the book's short publication cycle.xxx
Tanya your words…they for straight to my heart. I have such an emotional response. To be mentored by you, to have your generous and informed feedback, to be part of this incredible project you have set up.. And something is really shifting in me, something is starting to really accept my writing self, to honour her, to embrace that identity. And I couldn’t have done it without you. Can I say queen? Because I want to say queen.…
You can say queen, but you know I think I will smile and shake my head. I'm too homely, too rustic, to be that, and I wouldn't wish to be anyway. I think of myself - now you've sort of asked me - as the first person to put a log on a fire in a clearing I've made, while knowing it won't burn long or bright unless others come along and place their own stories into it. I like thinking of this place - like the creative confidence thread I'm running all year on Sharon Blackie's Hagitude program - as a communal fire in a clearing because others are around it, meeting, talking, listening, even when I'm not there myself.
I love what you bring to our project here. You are brave, brilliant. A born writer. Although I don't want to diminish all the reading and thinking that I know you've been doing all these decades...
xxx
Hi Tanya…been meaning to reply to this post for a while, and fretting about it. I love the way you describe what you do. All I was trying to express was the utmost respect I have for what you are doing with The cure for sleep. It is so beautiful. I am happy to be in the clearing with you and all 5he other amazing writers. Thank you. X
Kerry, I'm so sorry. My response to your kind - and meaningful words - was not the one I'd usually give. Which is - as I'm able to say now - simply and wholeheartedly this: Thank you. That's a moving way to be described, to be thought of.
And I realise that the day that gift of words from you came through was in a week when I was feeling very unsure of my life and my use now that the book was published and the last advance paid so that I'd gone temporarily deaf to the good in what I do. Thank you for reminding me that the space I've made here and the mentoring I do has purpose and value and is not at all tied to the book's short publication cycle.xxx