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A Nice Christmas Gift
I just received notice that I have received one of the 25 Professional Assistance Awards given by the Kentucky Arts Council each year. A very gratifying way to end this gratifying year. I am delighted to have the money, which I will use as a friend advised me to do “a fine writerly thing.” But I am more pleased by the affirmation this award represents.
Motivation to go back to that impossible poem and chip away at the problems in vision and craft that it represents. The most cherished poems are the least published. Difficult sometimes to remember their value, if only in driving one to find the next level.
And motivation to make some changes that I’ve been needing for some time. For the most part, I don’t think the change will show up on the blog except that I won’t be making early morning posts any more. At least I’m going to try not to. Listening to Richard Taylor at the Carnegie Center the other night reminded me that morning is my most creative time of day, and while I don’t mean to be giving the blog short shrift, I really need not to be giving my poetry short shrift.
In fact, I would hope that breaking my rut would make me a better blogger.
I tell you this mostly because there are those who worry if they don’t see my early morning posts. And also so you can keep me honest. If you don’t see me here in the early morning, think that I am doing yoga stretches, reading, journalling, maybe producing poetry. If you do see me here in the early morning, tell me to knock it off.
[Update: I just noticed that I haven't adjusted my time signatures for EST anyway so the blog hasn't been reflecting all these early morning posts anyway.]
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4 Comments
1. Helen Losse replies at 28th December 2006, 5:17 pm :
Congratulations Sherry. Way to go.
2. Terry replies at 28th December 2006, 5:53 pm :
Congrats! This is wonderful news! They’ve obviously got good sense, and I hope you find some rewarding experience to finance with it.
I completely agree that you should be possessive and protective of your mornings, if that’s your most creative time. I hope satisfying things come out of this change for you.
3. JimT replies at 28th December 2006, 6:29 pm :
What marvelous news, Sherry! Congratulations!
4. sherry replies at 29th December 2006, 10:54 am :
Thank you all.
I am finding that the angle of my neck sitting in my chair reading a book is more comfortable than the angle of my neck reading a computer screen.
And I meant to say yesterday that I want to heed Wendell Berry’s admonition to experience the place where you are at first hand and not filtered through screens or wires. Though I do think the place where we currently are is made up in part of screens and wires, still, there’s a balance.
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