“For me, the writing life doesn’t just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. ‘My heart keeps open house,’ was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.”
—Julia Alvarez
Exactly!
True for everything we do, it has to be done with intention…not that I do this all the time. I don’t, but it’s a goal.
Yes, please…
Mary Oliver would say:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Write about it.