February 10, 2012

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  Thank you for your comments on my post from a few days ago. This is all really new stuff for me to think about, and I when I saw that you had taken the time to think about it, too, it made me really happy. I don't even know if it's possible to define how a person learns, but trying to understand it has made a strangely enormous difference in the way I approach so many different things. Thanks for reading my thoughts about it. 

  Also. The poem. Writing it was an awfully strange experience. I woke up that morning with an idea, and kept telling myself that I didn't have time to think about it now, I would try to write it later. I had a paper due the next day that needed my attention. But when I sat down to work on the paper, I found myself writing the poem out instead. I worked on it for longer than I should have, but it was the nicest way to spend a morning. (And in the end, it was much different than the thing I started out with, which is how it alway seems to go.) I haven't done anything like that in a really long time, and feel like I have no sense of its, you know, quality. But it was so so good to work on it, to write something for fun, something that was just mine, something I didn't expect. 

  And now it's 2 a.m., and I swear I had other things to say, but I don't remember anymore.

   

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