Documented
Let’s make it periodical
It is Saturday in the realm of writing stuff. My Saturday writing realm thought is: maybe I should write about writing stuff instead of writing stuff, at least once a week, like on Saturday. Or Saturdays. Everybody does it and I should do more of what everybody does. It’s a daily battle between “is” and “should,” though. Not weekly.
So, a weekly day in the life. Why? Because I’m trying. Because I write stuff. Because I don’t (yet) write stuff for a living. Because I qualify statements like that with “yet” so “you” know where my heart lies. And when.
I finished my week reading an article about how to spend the last hour of my (work) day. I finished the week and the day but not the article because it was time to go home. And write. For living. Clarice (Lispector) said “Nothing is more difficult than surrendering to the instant. That difficulty is human pain. It is ours. I surrender in words and surrender when I paint.” I don’t paint, usually. But I do surrender. To Clarice, to love, to beauty, to hope, to paint, in words.
I’ll try doing this each week. Make it a thing. Do my art elsewhere and do some words here, documenting it all in my own vague kind of way. With images (see above). Because I’m an imagist, to put it outdatedly. And I believe in the power of words and language to shape perception. Reality is something else, isn’t it?
There are deadlines approaching, one today. Wish me luck, anonymites. And do follow along.
