I'm so grateful for all of your posts, Kim, and this one is particularly apt. I am extremely lucky to have a secure job that I can do from home; extremely lucky to have a safe home to work in, for that matter. And I've been feeling just a little critical that I haven't been using my commuting time to work on my novel. You have just pointed out something that would be obvious to me any other time: even without a 25-km roundtrip bike ride, my energy is at a premium right now. Re-reading an old fave is not slacking off, it's creating a little harbour for me and my emotions. And the Billy Collins poem! Fabulous! Thank you so much.
Ahhhhh....I love this. I'm sending it to my daughter-in-law who must be going crazy in a new job, "working" at home with two little ones. Plus....even though my gloomy thought pattern had been "sh-t, work is going to dry up. How can I afford to go to King's now?", you've reinvigorated me. What a great community. What an inspiring post. Thank you!
Midway through “Wind in the Willows” as I read this—on Audible, with my mom. We just finished “Alice in Wonderland” while she was in the hospital. We are re-enacting the reading she did to us as children.
I'm so grateful for all of your posts, Kim, and this one is particularly apt. I am extremely lucky to have a secure job that I can do from home; extremely lucky to have a safe home to work in, for that matter. And I've been feeling just a little critical that I haven't been using my commuting time to work on my novel. You have just pointed out something that would be obvious to me any other time: even without a 25-km roundtrip bike ride, my energy is at a premium right now. Re-reading an old fave is not slacking off, it's creating a little harbour for me and my emotions. And the Billy Collins poem! Fabulous! Thank you so much.
Ahhhhh....I love this. I'm sending it to my daughter-in-law who must be going crazy in a new job, "working" at home with two little ones. Plus....even though my gloomy thought pattern had been "sh-t, work is going to dry up. How can I afford to go to King's now?", you've reinvigorated me. What a great community. What an inspiring post. Thank you!
Thank you for calling out the cruelty of loading “now fit in writing your masterpiece “ onto this moment. Who needs that!
Midway through “Wind in the Willows” as I read this—on Audible, with my mom. We just finished “Alice in Wonderland” while she was in the hospital. We are re-enacting the reading she did to us as children.