They’ve all been excellent books — some more approachable than others. But the story idea remains just outside my grasp. I haven’t committed yet to moving forward with one specific plot. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Part of this is this apprehension is about whether I deserve<\/em> to talk about any given topic. I’m not an activist, and I’m certainly no expert. My opinions are always borrowed, like a chameleon’s colours. So this period of “stocking the pond”, ingesting, digesting, is important to my process — soaking in a topic and getting comfortable with my own mind and figuring out what I have to say about a thing. And I don’t feel confident asserting that until I’ve done my homework. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n But it’s so damned easy to just poke at the computer, watch movies, and eat instead. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n The trick, I think, is to get that there are seasons, and to have compassion for myself as being part of that cycle. It’s appropriate and good to lie fallow sometimes, to be dormant. Much potential energy is created when things decompose in the ground. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Our work is inside us already. Sure, there are actions we have to take for it to manifest externally, but being a slave driver with a whip at our own backs never gets out the really good, deep stuff. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n In addition to the climate-related books I’ve been reading, I’m also working through a number of different books about personal work, worldviews, etc.: Find Your Power<\/em>, Soul Without Shame<\/em>, The Enchantment of Modern Life<\/em>, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property<\/em>. I’m still waiting on Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy<\/em>, which sounds promising. Further down the queue, but I still want to get to, are Writing Open the Mind<\/em> (which was one of those books you tack onto an Amazon order so you get free shipping) and Self-Promotion for the Creative Person<\/em>. (That last one’s the scariest of all, and will possibly be the most useful.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n A theme that’s emerging out of this work is: “What are you afraid you’ll become if you don’t drive yourself with all this discipline?” If my work is something that I love — and I know in my heart it is — it will happen regardless. But it will happen in time, and maybe not a time-frame that satisfies my impatience or worry. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n There are some other projects I’d like to get to, too, craftsy things like pop-ups and books. If only I could be productive 24 hours a day. In practice, I’ve got about five or six good hours of work, both for the Coach and my other projects, and then I need hanging out time. That’s just how it works.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <<\/p>\n<\/p>\n p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n It’s March, and it feels like it. Even though there are flowers bursting out of our front garden, it’s sunny, and the weather has been mild, it’s still winter. I’m researching the book like mad, which is good, and I’ve done lots of difficult homework (reading about carbon sequestration, the troposphere, algae blooms, hydrogen storage, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/981\/fallow-me0.jpg.webp\")
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