Thank you. Each of your posts feels like a gift. I am so grateful for your writing.
Each time I read one of your posts, I come out of it feeling a little more peace. Feeling a little more healed. I love how you write. I love what you share. I love that it is a bit messy and chaotic and sometimes I come back to a post I've read already but I can't remember for sure if I've already read it or not (it's partially because of my ADHD trash working memory, and not because your writing is in any way forgettable, because that is most definitely not the case). And sometimes halfway through reading, there's a specific little expression or image or feeling that reminds me that I did, in fact, already read this. But then I keep reading anyway, because your writing always seems to have something new to offer.
I think I don't remember exactly if I've read something of yours already or not, because there is no easy way to summarize what each of your posts is offering. Yes, there might be a central idea or image that is particularly memorable (the magnolia in your essay on abscission, which btw remains my favorite piece of writing I've read this whole year), but your essays / sharings always do more than, like, make one point that is easy to summarize and digest. Your writing meanders and winds and unwinds, opens up on little vistas of insight, detours around little nuggets of seemingly mundane things that are of absolute beauty, and connects all sorts of different things together in really intricate and beautiful ways, while at the same time, your essays taken together seem to come back, again and again, to similar / related topics, circling through and around them in a different ways each time.
So maybe that combination of things is why I sometimes don't remember what I have and haven't yet read from you. Because reading your posts is also a sort of journey, a sort of letting my own mind meander alongside yours. And maybe I'm more invested in how each post makes me feel, or, like, the experience of reading each post, than I am invested in trying to boil down the post to a main idea (or a single idea) that I can more easily hold on to, and therefore sort of remember.
I guess I would say that your writing is of the kind that cannot be summarized or explained easily, and that, if you want to know what it is about, then the easiest thing to do is to actually read the whole thing, to actually experience it. And while publishing houses and content farms hate that (no easy main point, no easy tag line, please what box can we fit this into we don't know how to handle writing that allows itself to breath and expand and seemingly get lost along the way except that in fact the detour was just as essential as any part of the journey), I think that is exactly what makes your writing that much more wonderful. Your content and form are melded together so tightly that they cannot be pulled apart. And since I am a sucker for medium specificity and for work that finds form that is singularly specific to the piece in question, obviously I love your pieces.
So thank you, again, for writing and posting these.
Thank you. Each of your posts feels like a gift. I am so grateful for your writing.
Each time I read one of your posts, I come out of it feeling a little more peace. Feeling a little more healed. I love how you write. I love what you share. I love that it is a bit messy and chaotic and sometimes I come back to a post I've read already but I can't remember for sure if I've already read it or not (it's partially because of my ADHD trash working memory, and not because your writing is in any way forgettable, because that is most definitely not the case). And sometimes halfway through reading, there's a specific little expression or image or feeling that reminds me that I did, in fact, already read this. But then I keep reading anyway, because your writing always seems to have something new to offer.
I think I don't remember exactly if I've read something of yours already or not, because there is no easy way to summarize what each of your posts is offering. Yes, there might be a central idea or image that is particularly memorable (the magnolia in your essay on abscission, which btw remains my favorite piece of writing I've read this whole year), but your essays / sharings always do more than, like, make one point that is easy to summarize and digest. Your writing meanders and winds and unwinds, opens up on little vistas of insight, detours around little nuggets of seemingly mundane things that are of absolute beauty, and connects all sorts of different things together in really intricate and beautiful ways, while at the same time, your essays taken together seem to come back, again and again, to similar / related topics, circling through and around them in a different ways each time.
So maybe that combination of things is why I sometimes don't remember what I have and haven't yet read from you. Because reading your posts is also a sort of journey, a sort of letting my own mind meander alongside yours. And maybe I'm more invested in how each post makes me feel, or, like, the experience of reading each post, than I am invested in trying to boil down the post to a main idea (or a single idea) that I can more easily hold on to, and therefore sort of remember.
I guess I would say that your writing is of the kind that cannot be summarized or explained easily, and that, if you want to know what it is about, then the easiest thing to do is to actually read the whole thing, to actually experience it. And while publishing houses and content farms hate that (no easy main point, no easy tag line, please what box can we fit this into we don't know how to handle writing that allows itself to breath and expand and seemingly get lost along the way except that in fact the detour was just as essential as any part of the journey), I think that is exactly what makes your writing that much more wonderful. Your content and form are melded together so tightly that they cannot be pulled apart. And since I am a sucker for medium specificity and for work that finds form that is singularly specific to the piece in question, obviously I love your pieces.
So thank you, again, for writing and posting these.
You always bring the salve somehow