Tonight I did some mild cleaning and listened to two talks from Upaya Zen Center:
- Natalie Goldberg: 2-29-12: Shut Up and Write
- Jimmy Santiago Baca: 02-22-2012: Awakening Through Writing: Poetry with Dance
I want to make writing more of a practice. For years, I wrote daily, but when I started full time work over two years ago, I let that go. It takes time, but it is and always has been so necessary to the way that I operate. I know my deep self, my wild mind, my soul better when I write on a regular basis.
Goldberg talked about the importance of sticking to something. Baca spoke about the words pushing you out so that you reinvent yourself in space.
I know about meaning-making. Documenting. Amplifying. Sifting-through.
But where to write? What to write? With what intent? That doesn’t matter right now. Shut up and write. On a regular basis.
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If I were suddenly shrunk to the size of a bug, the last bird I’d want to see is the American Robin.
This after watching one disembowel a cicada last summer, and another peck at an earthworm last week.