réka
@reka
writer & recovering perfectionist
réka
- We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
from All Hail the Cloud by M. E. Rothwell
Current writing workflow ~easing into things~ :
acknowledge discomfort and fear (hello, fear)
start writing by hand, copy out last written sentence in project and continue on paper for a couple minutes
copy out what I just wrote into an Enso text doc on my laptop and keep writing until it stops being scary (however long that takes)
transfer Enso text
trying to ease discomofrt when starting to write, and finding ways to meet the call to write
From Giovanni’s Room - finding this online is super serendipitous as I highlighted this passage while reading the book in bed last night ! that has to mean something !
- One of my favorite understandings is that we teach from the radiance of our own discovery. When I can open to the silence and stillness that is here, then words and ideas arise that express that discovery....We teach what is alive for us, and that aliveness is the transmission.
from When you feel alone in your creative expression
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
on your 20s and quotes
