Well done Joyce for continuing to grow and express yourself in a whole new way. I love the visual of the centurion standing at the door inviting you in! I had pangs of recognition while reading that. I think your centurion moonlights over in my head as well.
Love this - and that great Picasso quote starting us out!
I was chuckling to myself that you wrote about Imaginative Storm; another one of our synchronistic connections. I stop in there from time to time on Saturday mornings - something about that 10 minute writing window and reading to each other opens up something that is immediate and uncensored and more visceral and surprising. There's no time to really THINK, the pen just moves.
I don't consider myself a writer, but one needs to write for all kinds of reasons. I use mine a lot for things like letters to the editor and local politicians and boards. I also use writing as another vehicle of expression, when other avenues are either dried up or need a rest or need words - it's all ebb and flow for me.
I love reading good writing on substack, and following the breadcrumbs of your recommendations and the beauty of things that you see and share with us. I discover more writers by reading writers. There are so many really good and articulate writers here on the 'stack. It's hard to limit subscription but with all going on in the world, I'm going for what excites and inspires and uplifts, as a counter-balance to other stuff I read and watch. I appreciate so much your artist's eye and your eyes of wonder woven into your writings, and your showing images rather than just using words all the time. Thank you, Joyce!
Hope to 'see' you sometime on Imaginative Storm - and WTG on taking a deeper dive with Allegra - enjoy!
PS - I really like 'A New Dance' - I feel like I am in some wonderous world with an aerial view of a colorful cosmos totally new and inviting.
I love that idea of "jazz writing," of riffing on what others have written, following that trail of thought that takes us someplace new, that excites a new sense of things. Some of my best writing has come from this "riffing." I feel like I've moved into a flow of conversation and am part of it. You've moved me to comment here, and that's part of it too. This reciprocity, evoking each other to respond.
Your reflections on a writing journey cause me to consider the distance between yearning and yielding. Our Western tradition of scholarship; the search & acquisition of information, the comparison & testing of theories, is one path to satisfy a yearning. Yielding follows another route that delivers understanding beyond knowing.
Well done Joyce for continuing to grow and express yourself in a whole new way. I love the visual of the centurion standing at the door inviting you in! I had pangs of recognition while reading that. I think your centurion moonlights over in my head as well.
Love this - and that great Picasso quote starting us out!
I was chuckling to myself that you wrote about Imaginative Storm; another one of our synchronistic connections. I stop in there from time to time on Saturday mornings - something about that 10 minute writing window and reading to each other opens up something that is immediate and uncensored and more visceral and surprising. There's no time to really THINK, the pen just moves.
I don't consider myself a writer, but one needs to write for all kinds of reasons. I use mine a lot for things like letters to the editor and local politicians and boards. I also use writing as another vehicle of expression, when other avenues are either dried up or need a rest or need words - it's all ebb and flow for me.
I love reading good writing on substack, and following the breadcrumbs of your recommendations and the beauty of things that you see and share with us. I discover more writers by reading writers. There are so many really good and articulate writers here on the 'stack. It's hard to limit subscription but with all going on in the world, I'm going for what excites and inspires and uplifts, as a counter-balance to other stuff I read and watch. I appreciate so much your artist's eye and your eyes of wonder woven into your writings, and your showing images rather than just using words all the time. Thank you, Joyce!
Hope to 'see' you sometime on Imaginative Storm - and WTG on taking a deeper dive with Allegra - enjoy!
PS - I really like 'A New Dance' - I feel like I am in some wonderous world with an aerial view of a colorful cosmos totally new and inviting.
I love that idea of "jazz writing," of riffing on what others have written, following that trail of thought that takes us someplace new, that excites a new sense of things. Some of my best writing has come from this "riffing." I feel like I've moved into a flow of conversation and am part of it. You've moved me to comment here, and that's part of it too. This reciprocity, evoking each other to respond.
I like to think of myself as an A- writer. If it's A minus, I hit publish/send. Just my 2 cents!
Your reflections on a writing journey cause me to consider the distance between yearning and yielding. Our Western tradition of scholarship; the search & acquisition of information, the comparison & testing of theories, is one path to satisfy a yearning. Yielding follows another route that delivers understanding beyond knowing.