“There are two kinds of daily life: the life in time, and the life in values: something which is not measured by minutes or hours, but by intensity, so that when we look at our past it does not stretch back evenly but piles up into a few notable pinnacles, and when we look at the future it seems sometimes a wall, sometimes a cloud, and sometimes a sun, but never a chronological chart.” --E.M. Forster
My Loneliness
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also makes you lonely.” –Lorraine Hansberry
Tell me about your loneliness. Start with the words, “My loneliness…”
... [Continue Reading]When the Bill Comes Due
“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday the body will present its bill, for it as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.” --Alice Miller
The truth I can no longer evade.
... [Continue Reading]Writing as Transformation
“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.” --Joyce Carol Oates
