In my own writing and reading I’ve recently been interested in the mythologizing of personal stories: enlarging metaphors and themes to blend truth and existing folklore with newly created heroes and villains. It seems that sometimes, the only way to get at a story so big you can’t see the whole thing is to write…
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I heard this beautiful poem by David Allen Sullivan on the Writer’s Almanac the other week. It is everything to grant oneself permission aloud, even if temporarily–to not be your absolute model best self at every turn. Shake off the burden of the unnecessary, of what you can release that will cause no one else…
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