Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon<\/p>\n
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.” – Bernard Berenson<\/p>\n
Friend Mark Odegard called from the Bly conference being held this weekend at the U. of Minnesota. “It’s\u00a0 heavyweight stuff.\u00a0 Come on down,”\u00a0 he said.\u00a0 Not gonna make it since I have garage cleaning and bee keeping chores today and Wishes for the Sky tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The weather has turned cooler, we are 22 degrees off our high of 71 yesterday right now.\u00a0 There may be some rain on its way, the humidity is up, as is the dewpoint.<\/p>\n
One of things that struck me in the Mishima film was a press conference where reporters asked him if he planned to give up writing, “Well,” he said, “I find I have to write one more line.\u00a0 Then, one more line.”\u00a0 He paused, “Then one more line.”\u00a0 A longer pause, “And one more.”\u00a0 I know how he felt.<\/p>\n
I find\u00a0 writing satisfying at several levels.\u00a0 It helps me organize my thoughts and assess them.\u00a0 Writing also helps clarify and name my feelings.\u00a0 The therapeutic value of this last has come home to me over and over.\u00a0 Though this may surprise some I also find it satisfying physically.\u00a0 My skill on the keyboard is one of the few physical acts I perform at a high level of competence. (I’m pretty good with chopsticks, too.)<\/p>\n
The keyboard and a white screen quite literally call to me several times a day and I’m finding increasing pressure to get back to long works, novels, for instance, in addition to the shorter essays and thought pieces I do regularly.<\/p>\n
One more line.\u00a0 Then, another.\u00a0 And another.\u00a0 Followed by.\u00a0 Another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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