{"id":15465,"date":"2011-05-07T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2011\/05\/07\/reflections\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:16","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2011\/05\/07\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fella’s having a very long lie-in, so I’ve spent the whole morning in a low-slung, soft, bouncy Ikea chair in one of the spare rooms with a big beige duvet over my legs up on a matching chair, reading. Just reading.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Delicious.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I stopped to ponder something my <\/span>coach<\/a><\/span> asked me in our second-last session, a question so big I put it aside and didn’t get around to it. I put down my book and looked at the printed out e-mail in which she posed it to me: “<\/span>Why are you doing this? <\/em><\/span>Why are you telling this story? Why are you creating? What is its meaning in your life? How do you value it?”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I sat for a moment and the answer floated up from inside me, the simplest truth that has been with me my whole life:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/span>When I write, I am free.<\/em><\/span>
<\/span>When I create, I am most myself.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As an adult, living in a world of money and power and responsibilities, it’s no wonder I keep returning to these same activities that I loved as a child, because this need has never changed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I get upset at the things about this world that are stupid and unjust — celebrity, constant war, the skewing of reward toward corporate good rather than what’s good for humans and nature — but in moments of noticing, being, and creating, I literally become the author of my experience and have one small little corner in which I can add something I wish to see.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Scottish election came and went, and we’ll see what happens. I’m happy to return to my small corner and forget about all that, because it’s way over there and I know that’s not where my talents lie. They’re right here. And this is where I’m free.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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