This is a beautiful meditation on nature, words, and the human experience. We share a love of Dillard's essays and I remember us discussing this one, possibly last summer. When I read this post two days ago, I decided that I wanted to read the essay again before responding so I just did that. It was like visiting an old friend, her mangroves, her east of Eden metaphor. You and I often have such a synchronicity. I have a Virginia Woolf quote from The Waves that I keep on my laptop home screen: "I am rooted, but I flow." It is like the mangroves. Rooted but flowing is what I feel right now or at least the state I aspire to. Like how you describe yourself, I also feel liminal during my trauma recovery journey and all the other that is in my life. The related synchronicity I am finding is how often in the past month I have encountered the word "unfurl." Every time I see it in print I underline it. It is a message for me, a mirror really of what I'm doing. It's in "Sojourners" and I have a poem coming out soon in the Yellow Arrow publication with the theme "Unfurl." You and I are unfurling, finding ways to let our true and beautiful selves be open. I salute that.
Sojourners, yes, wonderful image! And writers are a subset of that as we voyage through our writing/our writing lives.
Right?? Sometimes I don’t know if I’m talking about being autistic or being a writer.
This is a beautiful meditation on nature, words, and the human experience. We share a love of Dillard's essays and I remember us discussing this one, possibly last summer. When I read this post two days ago, I decided that I wanted to read the essay again before responding so I just did that. It was like visiting an old friend, her mangroves, her east of Eden metaphor. You and I often have such a synchronicity. I have a Virginia Woolf quote from The Waves that I keep on my laptop home screen: "I am rooted, but I flow." It is like the mangroves. Rooted but flowing is what I feel right now or at least the state I aspire to. Like how you describe yourself, I also feel liminal during my trauma recovery journey and all the other that is in my life. The related synchronicity I am finding is how often in the past month I have encountered the word "unfurl." Every time I see it in print I underline it. It is a message for me, a mirror really of what I'm doing. It's in "Sojourners" and I have a poem coming out soon in the Yellow Arrow publication with the theme "Unfurl." You and I are unfurling, finding ways to let our true and beautiful selves be open. I salute that.
This is so lovely. Now I need to go find the Dillard essay....
Gorgeous Rebecca, thank you💕
Thank you, Kristi ❤️