Regular readers may have noticed that I am feeling absolutely not creative. Old poems, bits and pieces from other sites -- that's all I've had to offer. Michael has been writing about sustainable creativity, a concept I want/ need to grasp. I am not sustaining.
I am, however, reading. Several months ago my glasses were irreparably broken, and I have been wearing a 20-year-old pair that works well enough for the computer, where I can enlarge the fonts, but not so well for books. A generous friend took me to the eye doctor and bought me new glasses, complete with bifocals. I have spent days now with real, paper, books.
I go to sleep with Lee Ann Roripaugh's poems in my head, in my body.
I've been dreaming wonderfully. Somewhere around here I have two chapbooks, one from Chris Murray, another from Eileen Tabios;
soon I will live with those poems, too -- although I suspect that they
will still require a magnifying glass. I realize that smaller
print means more words at less cost, but it is awkward to read poems
with a magnifier.
As I wait for these sources to sink down and bring up my own words, I've been doing a bit of detail work on this site, a little winter decor. And noticing that the "Why Blog" discussion has begun again at ITKitchen and Sandhill Trek.
And writing this, to be writing, anything.
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even if you find you are not feeling especially creative in the moment i still find sustenance in your blog pieces. thank you.
Posted by: susanne | 04 December 2004 at 12:14 PM
I agree, there is much sustenance in all of your writing. I find myself writing so much crap, sometimes I wonder if it isn't just to hear my own voice, out of lonliness or being alone with two dogs who haven't quite got the hang of those consonents yet.
At least you realize that creativity is a percolation process -- you read, digest, ruminate, pearls going down, dividing cells, swelling up, exploding out in Musings, like fireworks.
I'm so glad you got new glasses! That really helps a lot, doesn't it? Not being able to see, when one is a reader/writer, is so annoying.
Posted by: Kate S. | 05 December 2004 at 12:58 PM