And then, I came back to this notification and saw the first word in my comment was a typo. 🤦♀️ The great news is that did not panic (like I normally would) because I was reminded today that I am not in any real danger writing here on Substack. Your chat is lesson that just keeps giving.
Watching the recording (I don't generally watch recordings) I did the opening exercise, and immediately the words "work" "struggle" "challenge" but then "transcendence" and perhaps best, "connection." Perhaps, most important, connection to a part of self, which, as we know, is dangerously subversive to the ordinary navigations of life. So, it likes to hide. But here, in writing, it stands boldly forth, looking me in the eye, and rather insistently asking me to look back. Here's something from a true role model for us all (what woman chose to print and publish her own books in the 1940s on her own when no one else would print or publish them -- and worse, did not understand her work?): Anaïs Nin: “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
Another great point about time and quality resounds throughout the interview, reminds me of something stressed in the process of giving divergent learners access, opening traditional learning systems more generously: "Does it matter WHEN we learn or IF we learn?" Something especially poignant to me, given that I am taking this all on late in life with obstacles that could be (full disclosure: and sometimes are) excuses.
So much to say about this interview, but the short version is the fascinating connection between the writing art and brain science. And, I have to say I loved the unintentional phrase: "no sail in my wings." :) Sometimes, we can't talk without the poetic language popping out on its own!
Listen to this today on a walk and it was everything I needed in the space between pages. Omgoodness, thank you both.
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And then, I came back to this notification and saw the first word in my comment was a typo. 🤦♀️ The great news is that did not panic (like I normally would) because I was reminded today that I am not in any real danger writing here on Substack. Your chat is lesson that just keeps giving.
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Watching the recording (I don't generally watch recordings) I did the opening exercise, and immediately the words "work" "struggle" "challenge" but then "transcendence" and perhaps best, "connection." Perhaps, most important, connection to a part of self, which, as we know, is dangerously subversive to the ordinary navigations of life. So, it likes to hide. But here, in writing, it stands boldly forth, looking me in the eye, and rather insistently asking me to look back. Here's something from a true role model for us all (what woman chose to print and publish her own books in the 1940s on her own when no one else would print or publish them -- and worse, did not understand her work?): Anaïs Nin: “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
Another great point about time and quality resounds throughout the interview, reminds me of something stressed in the process of giving divergent learners access, opening traditional learning systems more generously: "Does it matter WHEN we learn or IF we learn?" Something especially poignant to me, given that I am taking this all on late in life with obstacles that could be (full disclosure: and sometimes are) excuses.
So much to say about this interview, but the short version is the fascinating connection between the writing art and brain science. And, I have to say I loved the unintentional phrase: "no sail in my wings." :) Sometimes, we can't talk without the poetic language popping out on its own!
This was such a wonderful comment. It’s a post on its own with so much wisdom. I love that quote from Nin. And Maya can’t help but be poetic.
I just reserved your book “Pathological…” from the library (yes, it's reached libraries all the way to Delaware!😄)
Amazing!! @Sarah Fay, PhD
Thank you!