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“I am interested (on my better days) in what makes me grow, not what makes me shine. Shining is easy, but it’s often cheap, and I have to remind myself of this when I see the cheap succeeding.”
Oof. I felt this. Probably need to tape it on my desk.
Thank you for this. Like you I write across genres. This is good encouragement to publish things that might risk audience disapproval or simply apathy. (Someone left a tiny Zoom prayer meeting because of something I wrote…) We are also grass farmers. But next to fields that are sprayed. The spray has been worse this year.
So good! I am so grateful for your writing and wisdom, sister. I read The Understory this year in the midst of a really hard season and it was such a healing place of rest.
“I am interested (on my better days) in what makes me grow, not what makes me shine. Shining is easy, but it’s often cheap, and I have to remind myself of this when I see the cheap succeeding.”
Oof. I felt this. Probably need to tape it on my desk.
Thank you. I probably need to tape it to mine too ;)
Thank you for this. Like you I write across genres. This is good encouragement to publish things that might risk audience disapproval or simply apathy. (Someone left a tiny Zoom prayer meeting because of something I wrote…) We are also grass farmers. But next to fields that are sprayed. The spray has been worse this year.
I am so sorry about the spray. It makes me so sad. Not just for our earth but for those who, like you, put your hands to the work of renewing her.
So good! I am so grateful for your writing and wisdom, sister. I read The Understory this year in the midst of a really hard season and it was such a healing place of rest.