Carly

I think it requires being patient. Looking again. Outward at the foam of a new world, at all that is unfamiliar and jarring, with curiosity. But also inward, recognizing how every encounter with reality is unfinished, never final.

Often, the very things we initially find unassuming or odd are what alter us irreversibly. A particular brightness enters your life. It leaves the entire world tinged with evidence of it being there , like a droplet of iodine in the eye, suffusing everything blue.

mystic Marguerite Porete

Yet, I’m stubbornly protective over my personal writing. Precisely because I care about this squishier concept of identity, and identity creation through consuming and discarding information and killing your darlings and knitting together the ideas that, like brief stars, orbit far apart.

If art is the product of many many micro decisions, I care... See more

Rebecca Solnit claims that all writing begins with a ‘cosmology of the self.’ The structure of your internal universe that flows into everything you create.

Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false

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