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   eyreish

   March 14, 2016

   If not yet, then read Pat Schneider’s “How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice.
   The excerpt that caught my eye/ear today:

   Sometimes writing sits in you
   like a wild animal. Maybe
   you see its eyes.
   Maybe you don’t see it at all,
   but the hair on the back of your neck
   knows it is there
   where the deepest shadows lie.
   Often the shadows lie
   about what’s hiding in them.
   The panther that has stalked you
   since you were a child
   is old now. No longer wild,
   and tired of guarding the treasure
   you yourself left behind –
   blind and deaf, she will give it all to you
   if you just let her go.
   But how are you to know
   whether the fox on the hill
   in the cemetery carries your mother’s name
   or is the same fox you saw
   crossing your back yard in the snow
   unless you put your pen to paper
   and use it to release the animal
   that hides in the shadow of you hand?

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      Gray In The Woods

      March 14, 2016

      wow. I’ll get the book. Do you know “The Artist’s Way”?

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         eyreish

         March 15, 2016

         Ordered it last night.

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         Gray In The Woods

         March 16, 2016

         It’s a workbook you know…I did the whole course…

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