This is beautiful and there thread of birds through your work is a lovely theme. I love my chickadees and nuthatches so much. They are such darling birds.
I have noticed that since I have started reading your newsletter, I have been passing less and less judgement on 'negative' or 'un-desired' experiences. Witnessing them more as stories in my life.
Such a lovely essay! "Shedding the weight of a borrowed pattern" is a marvelous phrase, and, ironically, feels like a motto I should aspire to for 2020. May this year happen with less obligations and expectations borrowed from others, and with more secret joys we find for ourselves.
Your love of extant dinosaurs has resulted in so many beautiful stories. :)
"There’s a kind of divination in that, too: you know who you are, but here’s who you could be, the seeds of that self already rooting in you, sprouting." YES. That's it entirely. That's the desperate yearning that comes with every new book and show, every new world with all its people. What am I among these companions? Which Sailor Senshi, which X-Man, which G.I. Joe would I be (or would befriend me)? Who would I be in my most ideal form?
This is beautiful and there thread of birds through your work is a lovely theme. I love my chickadees and nuthatches so much. They are such darling birds.
Thank you, Amal.
I have noticed that since I have started reading your newsletter, I have been passing less and less judgement on 'negative' or 'un-desired' experiences. Witnessing them more as stories in my life.
I can’t begin to tell you how happy this makes me!
The same with me! I feel encourage to just observe rather than judge.
Such a lovely essay! "Shedding the weight of a borrowed pattern" is a marvelous phrase, and, ironically, feels like a motto I should aspire to for 2020. May this year happen with less obligations and expectations borrowed from others, and with more secret joys we find for ourselves.
Beautiful.
Your love of extant dinosaurs has resulted in so many beautiful stories. :)
"There’s a kind of divination in that, too: you know who you are, but here’s who you could be, the seeds of that self already rooting in you, sprouting." YES. That's it entirely. That's the desperate yearning that comes with every new book and show, every new world with all its people. What am I among these companions? Which Sailor Senshi, which X-Man, which G.I. Joe would I be (or would befriend me)? Who would I be in my most ideal form?