Day One: Self-Loyalty & The Source from Practical Magic with Renee Magnusson
Self-loyalty for me is writing a haiku every morning and posting it on instagram with an accompanying photo. This is also my source whether as gentle as stepping stones across a slow moving stream or as fierce as a rickety rope bridge over a ravine, my grounding path to myself, an acknowledgement of what I noticed and, sometimes, of what I made of what I noticed. This is my second full year of daily haiku and I love to look back on what inspired me over the years and my take on what spoke to me. If I feel lost, I read the haiku, look at the photos and step by step I find myself again. The quote from Joan Didion that Renee began today’s email with really spoke to me: “On that bankrupt morning…” “See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there...” ~ Joan Didion This is my fiercest self-loyalty, I realise. And I may have recently lost a friendship over it, someone who criticised my haiku style without being asked (I shared some haiku with her as writing them was a shared interest and I wanted to fill her in on some of my recent days) and who sent me six consecutive emails (none of which I responded to) expanding on her views. I began to doubt my ability and in what felt like a dashing act of self-loyalty, I left a writing group she had recently joined when a similar pattern emerged. It hurt as we had rekindled the friendship not long ago (and may still, I’m not sure) but a deep-seated part of myself applauded loudly. And so I continue my daily haiku. more celebrations all those eighty-five years passed cake crumbs line the plate #332
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