A conversation I had recently reminded me of a line I love by the late poet Mary Oliver, from her poem Wild Geese. It begins with the line, “You do not have to be good,” later saying “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
Love this. Reminds me of the notion that so many poets and writers have that they have to walk for the ideas or writing puzzles to unravel. Maybe you even wrote about this recently? I’ve been trying to remind myself to get up and move when I hit a procrastination block, rather than sit still and push myself onwards
Yes and same!! I think I might've mentioned it in the essay about over focus killing creativity. So easy to forget though even after writing on it. When I do remember to take the block for a walk it really works though 💗 do you find it works? X
I completely agree! This is something I've been thinking about—that I want to immerse myself more in life as part of my practice and write from that vantage. Like a "field writer" rather than a purely cerebral one so that there's that balance in my life and the writing is grounded. Thank you for reading x
Love this. Reminds me of the notion that so many poets and writers have that they have to walk for the ideas or writing puzzles to unravel. Maybe you even wrote about this recently? I’ve been trying to remind myself to get up and move when I hit a procrastination block, rather than sit still and push myself onwards
Yes and same!! I think I might've mentioned it in the essay about over focus killing creativity. So easy to forget though even after writing on it. When I do remember to take the block for a walk it really works though 💗 do you find it works? X
We need to keep moving in order to have ideas to what to write about!! Getting out of the house helps my creativity flow
I completely agree! This is something I've been thinking about—that I want to immerse myself more in life as part of my practice and write from that vantage. Like a "field writer" rather than a purely cerebral one so that there's that balance in my life and the writing is grounded. Thank you for reading x