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Clare Bowditch - Your Own Kind of Girl
(page 186-187)
... See moreI don't know how many times I told Ron that with a brain like mine perhaps I would never get to live out my Jeff Buckley dream. Even the thought of standing on stage made my cheeks go pink and my hands start shaking.
What if I just started smaller? suggested Ron.
What if I just started with
Joan Didion (from “On Keeping a Notebook”):
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. Keeping a notebook keeps alive some illusion of who we used to be, allowing us to maintain continuity with a self we’ve already
... See moreThe willingness to figure things out as you go is often the only difference between those who achieve difficult things and those who never begin.
Clare Bowditch - Your Own Kind of Girl
(page 216)
I made my way through that most tender of years. The voice of grace reminded me that I didn't need to have it all worked out.
I didn't have to be living some amazing life just yet. All I needed to do for now was start, and I had done that, by following my instincts and doing the things I love.
Creative work is hard. And we constantly beat ourselves up for not producing high quantities of high-quality stuff. It’s easy to forget that we’re trying to make this work at a time when we’re oversaturated with connections, and constant, flashing demands. Boring old boundaries have never been more vital. Going into the cave will feel a little cold... See more
heal. Previously, I used to wake up and monitor how I felt and spend all day trying to do something about it. I finally accepted that when I woke, I would feel tired and anxious, my mind would probably race and that I would feel odd and detached for most of the day. I would not ignore it or pretend to like it, but for once I was not going to try
... See morePaul David • At Last A Life
Since the note is in my notebook, it presumably has some meaning to me.
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a note book. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going
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