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holycitygirl

Posterity

Jul 27, 2007 18:52

I've always loved this essay. Maybe you will too. Posted so I'll have it in my LJ, should I ever need it.

Terry Tempest Williams (b.1955)
Why I Write

It is just after 4:00 a.m. I was dreaming about Moab, Brooke and I walking around the block just before dawn. I threw a red silk scarf around my shoulders and then I began reciting in my ( Read more... )

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alliecat8 July 28 2007, 00:47:19 UTC

I'm gonna add that to memories. There are so many other lines I'd have highlighted, but one we share a love for, and one I'm fixated on right now, is this one, I write for the surprise of a sentence. Words can be like Christmas every day, can't they? Thanks for this!!! :)

holycitygirl July 28 2007, 01:34:35 UTC

Your welcome baby! (I so could have highlighted the whole thing too, but I was limiting myself to the 100 percent Lee ones)

crowgirl13 July 28 2007, 00:51:35 UTC

Terry Tempest Williams!
*flails*

[Apparently this is my week for spazzing in your general direction. :D]

This made the hair on the back of my neck rise...and I might have cried a little too. Thanks for posting this.

*smooches*

holycitygirl July 28 2007, 01:33:28 UTC

We would so be super literary geek best friends in real life. ;) The universe knew what it was doing (a dirty mean trick) by keeping us miles apart.

You are welcome. ♥

crowgirl13 July 28 2007, 02:35:44 UTC

We so would!

Hmm... maybe the geographic seperation keeps some Universal balance in place? Or perhaps this is a kindness - an excuse [as if an excuse was needed] for roadtrips. Heck, it's only 18 and a half hours between us. T'aint nothin'. :D

holycitygirl July 28 2007, 05:49:50 UTC

We could at least meet in the middle. ;)

isis2015 July 28 2007, 00:57:10 UTC

I write because I am not employable.

I may need an icon that says that. ;)

holycitygirl July 28 2007, 01:30:58 UTC

THAT would be a fabulous icon. :) I'd so help you use it.

isis2015 July 28 2007, 02:30:30 UTC

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holycitygirl July 28 2007, 05:50:51 UTC

Awesome! I love it!

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kashmir1 July 28 2007, 02:16:00 UTC

♥

:D

sugangel7 August 1 2007, 04:34:05 UTC

Oh my gosh, the last line is the best. You know I'm a sucker for powerful ending lines.

I also liked, "I write myself out of my nightmares and into my dreams" and "I write with the patience of melancholy in winter."

Also, that last portion in general is just beautiful especially "words are splinters from cut glass."

holycitygirl August 1 2007, 12:08:40 UTC

I knew you would like. ♥ TTW can knock you down. The splinters line is probably my favorite too.