Emma M Havighorst
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Emma M Havighorst
Humility is asserting your needs and guarding your serenity. It is being. It’s just being. Being and letting be.
Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the temptat... See more
Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the temptat... See more
Anna Sproul-Latimer • On arrogance and humility in the rock tumbler of our publishing life
Arrogance is the belief that we can control the chaos of our lives if we know just the right metrics, reduce things into just the right formulas, and gather just the right advice. It’s what keeps us scrambling for external validation like lab mice in a cheese maze instead of doing the work to feel calm and fulfilled just as we are.
Arrogance is als... See more
Arrogance is als... See more
On arrogance and humility in the rock tumbler of our publishing life
Extremity is your power and purpose as a writer. The things about you that make you most ashamed are in fact the things that are probably most valuable about you to the overall health and endurance of humanity.
A brief maritime-themed doodle on the subject of your value
For the sake of post-nutshell clarity, assertions like literature is inherently more serious than games boil down to two anxieties, one material and one aesthetic:
1) The underfunding of the humanities. As college deans and corporate executives shred venues dedicated to reading, writing, and the instruction of reading and writing, many of literature... See more
1) The underfunding of the humanities. As college deans and corporate executives shred venues dedicated to reading, writing, and the instruction of reading and writing, many of literature... See more
Mason Andrew Hamberlin • Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
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Kinsella remains focused on the day to day — and each one begins with the same routine: “Henry gets up very early. He reads the whole internet and brings me a cup of tea and a hopeful story. He’ll say, ‘I read about someone who lasted this long after diagnosis.’”
She said, “I really want to be someone else’s story of hope.”