November 24, 2021
Gleanings
- Right now, we’re making do. Sitting on it. Doing nothing.
- In the years since, I’ve put characters in a novel on that road, just so I could travel it again over and over, as I wrote…
- This week I am numb. I think our brains can only take in so much suffering and heartache and I am maxed out.
- I’ve been looking forward to this novel by the very funny and sharp Saskatchewan writer, Dawn Dumont. I read it as soon as it was released, and loved it.
- It’s never the same, some days I walk alone, some days with others, some days with awe, some days it’s a head down get it done kind of walk.
- I think we all need a little more cake these days.
- Do we need to know our forefathers? And by knowing the details of their lives (but not their personalities, their struggles, their stories) – will it change who we are today?
- What I recognized through this work was that my inner light has the capacity to shine brightly in many situations; but there is payment afterward (or before) when that energy burns.
- Three books that are really hitting the spot for me of late…
- For decades, we have been telling ourselves that we need to be perfect if we want to satisfy our audiences. But AUDIENCES DON’T WANT PERFECTION. They want to see themselves reflected on stage. They want humanity.
- Writing essays is easier for me and often more fun, but writing novels feels like what I’m supposed to be doing with my life. I may be wrong about this. I often wonder why I don’t just stick with the thing that’s fun.
- “Whenever someone writes a memoir about death and dying or grief, it’s always like this: ‘My house burned down, I lost my husband in a car accident, and now I’m CEO of this company,’ ” Hitchins says. “You have that story, or the self-help version, which is, ‘Ten years later, here’s my post-traumatic wisdom.’ What is it like when your only achievement is you started showering again?”
geez I’m going to make that cake!