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Brooke Warner's avatar

I am finding that writing my memoir is teaching me about patience—the kind involved when maybe the right timing has to do with forces outside of you.

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Marta Pelrine-Bacon's avatar

At the moment I feel like all 37 kinds of patience are in a depleted well. I teach, which requires patience with students and the learning process. I take care of my 88-year-old father, whose failing cognitive abilities and protracted divorce require more patience than I can ever actually manifest. There's the usual patience required for life--those traffic jams, etc. And then we come to the patience required for my writing--the actual writing and the efforts to get published. I can manage patience for some of this but not all of this all the time.

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