"When I wake in the dark, time is suspended." - A vivid, potent image. I feel that way too, when the sun hasn't risen yet, and everything is quiet like a pause.
Thanks as always for sharing this DKW. I am currently reading a short collection by Chuck Palahniuk, "Stranger Than Fiction," and also reading "The Palace of Eros" by Caro De Robertis. I only seem to read Palahniuk on public transit from one place to another and Caro I am reading because I lover their language. I attended an author even with Caro and Angie Cruz, author of "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water." Caro's writing is simply gorgeous in many ways including the fresh slant she brings to her words that just shape her images in an authentic way that seems effortless, but makes me wonder if she agonizes over her words and punctuation. Oh and I also just finished reading "The Personal Librarian" on Audible which was amazing, and Im looking forward to an exhibit that will be showing at the end of October on Belle de Costa Greene's life at the Morgan Library in NYC! Thats all from me, thanks as always.
I'll always take your reading recs, Brian! thanks for sharing. I haven't read any of those. Saving this list to go through when I get a chance to go to the library in a couple of weeks. Thank you!
I love the image of the owl moving through the space you had occupied. I often think of those spaces, imagine reinhabiting a space in the sky that you had passed through on a plane, or standing at the top of a building, but now the plane or building are no longer there.
Oh I love that. Love the way you put it. It would be interesting to hear a physicist talk about the energy fields but it’s also just the concept of a tracking, filmic in a way. Thanks Troy!
Really beautiful, Kate. I so love these posts and the ideas you intertwine.
"I find I am most happy when I am able to take early mornings for yoga and writing, before the layers of the day start to come into my space. As enjoyable as many of these layers may be, they often inhibit me from writing. And to write, I first move my body or breath in a way that serves the purpose."
Really relate to this, although I must say I most enjoy the crisp and bright blue-sky spring and summer mornings rather than the cold snowy ones, although perhaps if we had snow (and proper snow, at that) then this would make me enjoy winter mornings more. Oh, and insulation, too. Melbourne is rubbish at house insulation.
I know Ruth Ozeki's name but haven't read any of her work. This certainly sounds my kind of thing, so thanks for highlighting it. Adding it to my list.
Yeah, Ozeki was a name floating in my head until I saw her on the shelf. It's very easy reading, as in it just flows so quickly. And then at the same time, the philosophical ideas are quite deep and vast! I think you would enjoy her work for sure, at least this one.
I also prefer early mornings for creative writing, as you say, before the layers of the day's exertion start piling up on me. The same feeling of pristine being. And yes, I think I also like the cold season, not for the cold, but for the dark at six a.m. It's just me, a tiny candle and the screen.
I'm between projects right now. I'm getting my novel Lili Comes to Herself ready for publication (self-), and I already have the first sketchy ideas of the protagonists of my next book. Switching from writing looking back on real experience to imagining what a real story could have become. New terrain :)
"When I wake in the dark, time is suspended." - A vivid, potent image. I feel that way too, when the sun hasn't risen yet, and everything is quiet like a pause.
Thank you, Nadia! Happy to think of us each experiencing this. :)
Thanks as always for sharing this DKW. I am currently reading a short collection by Chuck Palahniuk, "Stranger Than Fiction," and also reading "The Palace of Eros" by Caro De Robertis. I only seem to read Palahniuk on public transit from one place to another and Caro I am reading because I lover their language. I attended an author even with Caro and Angie Cruz, author of "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water." Caro's writing is simply gorgeous in many ways including the fresh slant she brings to her words that just shape her images in an authentic way that seems effortless, but makes me wonder if she agonizes over her words and punctuation. Oh and I also just finished reading "The Personal Librarian" on Audible which was amazing, and Im looking forward to an exhibit that will be showing at the end of October on Belle de Costa Greene's life at the Morgan Library in NYC! Thats all from me, thanks as always.
I'll always take your reading recs, Brian! thanks for sharing. I haven't read any of those. Saving this list to go through when I get a chance to go to the library in a couple of weeks. Thank you!
I love the image of the owl moving through the space you had occupied. I often think of those spaces, imagine reinhabiting a space in the sky that you had passed through on a plane, or standing at the top of a building, but now the plane or building are no longer there.
Oh I love that. Love the way you put it. It would be interesting to hear a physicist talk about the energy fields but it’s also just the concept of a tracking, filmic in a way. Thanks Troy!
Really beautiful, Kate. I so love these posts and the ideas you intertwine.
"I find I am most happy when I am able to take early mornings for yoga and writing, before the layers of the day start to come into my space. As enjoyable as many of these layers may be, they often inhibit me from writing. And to write, I first move my body or breath in a way that serves the purpose."
Really relate to this, although I must say I most enjoy the crisp and bright blue-sky spring and summer mornings rather than the cold snowy ones, although perhaps if we had snow (and proper snow, at that) then this would make me enjoy winter mornings more. Oh, and insulation, too. Melbourne is rubbish at house insulation.
I know Ruth Ozeki's name but haven't read any of her work. This certainly sounds my kind of thing, so thanks for highlighting it. Adding it to my list.
Thanks Nathan!
Yeah, Ozeki was a name floating in my head until I saw her on the shelf. It's very easy reading, as in it just flows so quickly. And then at the same time, the philosophical ideas are quite deep and vast! I think you would enjoy her work for sure, at least this one.
Lovely. I look forward to reading.
"Here — in the dark — we just are. We eschew judgment. It is a return to innocence. The pure being — a soul? a child? — leaps freely.
I am reminded who I am." I really enjoyed this passage, Kate. Precious moments of freedom, of pure identity.
Thank you, Jeffrey!
I also prefer early mornings for creative writing, as you say, before the layers of the day's exertion start piling up on me. The same feeling of pristine being. And yes, I think I also like the cold season, not for the cold, but for the dark at six a.m. It's just me, a tiny candle and the screen.
I'm between projects right now. I'm getting my novel Lili Comes to Herself ready for publication (self-), and I already have the first sketchy ideas of the protagonists of my next book. Switching from writing looking back on real experience to imagining what a real story could have become. New terrain :)
Thanks for a lovely post.
Exciting about your indie publishing projects, Zoe!
Very cool about the mornings for you...and the tiny candle :) What a lovely addition. Thank you for reading and commenting.