This piece is going to take until midnight. I keep checking in with folks in crisis.
What even is writing? Why art?
We have so much distress in the world.
So many people who just need you to sit with them while they're in pain.
It often feels so agonizingly selfish to create, even nonfiction meant to inform.
Our world is falling apart (same as it ever was). Is it worth keeping the creative dream alive when there is *so* much quotidian need to address first?
#AmWriting, but also
#AmHumaning
@MLClark Writing is healing.
@SaltyVeruca @MLClark and reading can be healing, and empathy is a super power, and the real rescuing is an inside job. Support, cajole, Socratically question, model alternatives, but ultimately it’s on the individual (including whether they’ll seek or accept the support, cajoling, Socratic questioning, or try on new more adaptive ways of navigating life).
@CanisPundit @SaltyVeruca @MLClark Lots of truth in these posts. Thank you for my new word of the day: quotidian
Noun, Returning daily, or occuring daily.