I can’t stress enough what a strange experience the timing of this particular newsletter is, as I got to reading it while going into my second night of being hospitalized for an infection in a chronic wound I’ve been dealing with. As always, you seem to have just the right words Grant. I hope you’re feeling better, but am so glad that in your illness you were able to offer such words of inspiration and find for yourself such an important time of introspection. I’m definitely going to do some of my own journaling on thoughts this stirred up before getting some rest.
Ah, thanks so much, Elayna. I'm so sorry you're going through your own health challenge, though. I'm interviewing Charif Shanahan for the Write-minded podcast, and he was in a bad bus accident, and he journaled through all of his recovery time. He was unable to write poetry, but turned to his journals to write poems about the experience later. So ... I hope your journaling not only through your healing, but that your words keep moving you forward. Be well. Take care of yourself. Indulge in rest.
This makes me want to take to my bed with faintness and palpitations. I haven’t been sick since well before Covid, and you’ve made me wonder if my persistent good health (injuries aside, like an equally persistent tendinitis) is at least partly to blame for my sense of ennui, which I’ve blamed on the state of the world. Though I do know that feeling of relief when, say, a sore throat keeps me at home and disrupts plans I both want and don’t want to keep. Thank you for the glorious words of Woolf and for your honesty and self-awareness. I’d say I’m sorry you’re sick, but instead I’ll wish you the most you can get from ol’ Covid.
This is SO good. You captured a thought I've long held but never articulated: that there is some upside to being sick. And the quotes you found, they are so eloquent that they make me want to stop writing out of discouragement that I'll never be that good. I'm only half-kidding. Anyway, great piece.
Ken, I'm glad this resonated. Sickness is definitely an odd gift (and yet a gift). I hope you're not truly discouraged by the quotes because ... it's hard to match Virginia Woolf! If you have time, read the entire essay. It really is a gorgeous reflection. May you be well, though!
I can’t stress enough what a strange experience the timing of this particular newsletter is, as I got to reading it while going into my second night of being hospitalized for an infection in a chronic wound I’ve been dealing with. As always, you seem to have just the right words Grant. I hope you’re feeling better, but am so glad that in your illness you were able to offer such words of inspiration and find for yourself such an important time of introspection. I’m definitely going to do some of my own journaling on thoughts this stirred up before getting some rest.
Ah, thanks so much, Elayna. I'm so sorry you're going through your own health challenge, though. I'm interviewing Charif Shanahan for the Write-minded podcast, and he was in a bad bus accident, and he journaled through all of his recovery time. He was unable to write poetry, but turned to his journals to write poems about the experience later. So ... I hope your journaling not only through your healing, but that your words keep moving you forward. Be well. Take care of yourself. Indulge in rest.
This makes me want to take to my bed with faintness and palpitations. I haven’t been sick since well before Covid, and you’ve made me wonder if my persistent good health (injuries aside, like an equally persistent tendinitis) is at least partly to blame for my sense of ennui, which I’ve blamed on the state of the world. Though I do know that feeling of relief when, say, a sore throat keeps me at home and disrupts plans I both want and don’t want to keep. Thank you for the glorious words of Woolf and for your honesty and self-awareness. I’d say I’m sorry you’re sick, but instead I’ll wish you the most you can get from ol’ Covid.
Thanks, Cheryl! An illness can be strangely awakening. Not that I wish illness on anyone. Be well...
Glad you are okay. Being sick is such a personal voyage. Thank you for writing through it.
This is SO good. You captured a thought I've long held but never articulated: that there is some upside to being sick. And the quotes you found, they are so eloquent that they make me want to stop writing out of discouragement that I'll never be that good. I'm only half-kidding. Anyway, great piece.
Ken, I'm glad this resonated. Sickness is definitely an odd gift (and yet a gift). I hope you're not truly discouraged by the quotes because ... it's hard to match Virginia Woolf! If you have time, read the entire essay. It really is a gorgeous reflection. May you be well, though!