Thanks so much, as ever, Tanya. In this piece I was trying to find words for a visceral experience, the feelings and images of which I can still recall decades later. It's hard to find those words. But what a treasure that fusion of life and books is! I look forward to re-reading the piece you describe in The Cure for Sleep. I'm also int…
Thanks so much, as ever, Tanya. In this piece I was trying to find words for a visceral experience, the feelings and images of which I can still recall decades later. It's hard to find those words. But what a treasure that fusion of life and books is! I look forward to re-reading the piece you describe in The Cure for Sleep. I'm also interested to know how you balance reading books, which you clearly so love, with smartphone/social media activity - they're both such immersive activities, and so different in many ways. You offer us such a wonderful opportunity here, to see our words outside of our heads - and then there's your wonderful encouragement. Thanks so much again, xs
Oh now there's some good stuff to be talking about all together tomorrow, Sheila!
The deep interior time, that reading alchemy, you describe so vividly in your piece...and how to join a community of creatives and find an audience, we need sometimes to leave that place and be in another one. I'm trying this season - this project and my work til next October as a co-tutor on Sharon Blackie's online Hagitude forum aside - to retreat a little from my now-habitual scrolling and reading of fragments online. It's hard but I see it as repairing my concentration. I don't plan to leave social media as so many good people are met through it - you and me talking here an example of that! But I'm yearning for the kind of deep reading life I describe in the book from my early twenties, and such as you have written about here. xxx
Thanks so much, as ever, Tanya. In this piece I was trying to find words for a visceral experience, the feelings and images of which I can still recall decades later. It's hard to find those words. But what a treasure that fusion of life and books is! I look forward to re-reading the piece you describe in The Cure for Sleep. I'm also interested to know how you balance reading books, which you clearly so love, with smartphone/social media activity - they're both such immersive activities, and so different in many ways. You offer us such a wonderful opportunity here, to see our words outside of our heads - and then there's your wonderful encouragement. Thanks so much again, xs
Oh now there's some good stuff to be talking about all together tomorrow, Sheila!
The deep interior time, that reading alchemy, you describe so vividly in your piece...and how to join a community of creatives and find an audience, we need sometimes to leave that place and be in another one. I'm trying this season - this project and my work til next October as a co-tutor on Sharon Blackie's online Hagitude forum aside - to retreat a little from my now-habitual scrolling and reading of fragments online. It's hard but I see it as repairing my concentration. I don't plan to leave social media as so many good people are met through it - you and me talking here an example of that! But I'm yearning for the kind of deep reading life I describe in the book from my early twenties, and such as you have written about here. xxx