How meaning arrives

“For me, meaning arrives almost unbidden from an accumulation of specific details.” From Ted Kooser’s The Poetry Home Repair Manual.

Publication and writing

“Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.”

–Anne Lamott in bird by bird

I dance by writing

From Anne Lamott’s bird by bird: “I taped Hillel’s line to the wall by my desk: ‘I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.’ The way I dance is by writing.”