Dear Reader:
It’s been a week of writing and rewriting, but now it’s
confessing time. On to the confessional.
Reader, I confess that I am taking a break from writing
tonight. I am planning to be immersed in
the New York Democratic Primary returns. I’ve spent a lot of this during this
past week cranking out material, much of it
has some promise – with additional work, but tonight I put all that
aside.
My expectations for tonight are a Hillary win in New York. I
anticipate her margin will be somewhere between a 9 and 14 point spread. Of
course I can hope for more J I will follow the returns on MSNBC as the
usually have the best coverage. I was
invited to a party to watch the returns but I decided to pass on it and stay
home.
For some time now I have been using the Poet Tarot Cards by
Two Sylvias
Press as a spark for my creative process. For a while I blogged elsewhere
on this weekly but after over a year I stopped the blog. Sunday I pulled the T.
S. Eliot card from the deck. Yes, Eliot,
the key keeper of language is to be my guide this week. I don’t think of Eliot as being a prolific
writer. Rather I consider him a rather picky craftsman. Kind of the was Elizabeth Bishop was –
wanting “perfect poems” before they could be published. I confess that at times I become impatient
with the process. Drawing this card reminds me of the value poets like Eliot
and Bishop placed in patience. If I were
looking for a characteristic that I could perhaps learn as a result of the King
of Quills – Eliot tarot card it would perhaps be allowing myself more
patience. This is not always easy. I
confess that I am often driven in my anxiousness around my writing by the fact
that I did not start writing until late in life and I always feel the clock of
life ticking away.
Until next time, may the Muse be with you….
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