Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/15/jane-kenyon-advice-on-writing/
If your day includes time for quiet reading, this piece by writer and poet Devin Kelly is really beautiful. https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/galway-kinnells-the-26th-of-december?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56151&post_id=92492107&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email #poetry #grief #family #childhood #GalwayKinnell #Christmas #Grandma #father #AnnieDillard #JaneKenyon #MartinBuber
#poetry #grief #family #childhood #galwaykinnell #christmas #grandma #father #anniedillard #janekenyon #martinbuber
Occasionally, the dog person and the poet inside me take a break from duking it out. #poem #writing #dogperson #melancholy #janekenyon. This is from “Having it out with melancholy” from Jane Kenyon’s Otherwise (Grey Wolf 1996).
#poem #writing #dogperson #melancholy #janekenyon