Damn... I need your help with this Nostriches
My poems are going to the printer very soon because the magician @Agi Choote has nearly finished casting her spells over my work 🪄
Pretty soon they will be on @Fanfares too, thanks to @arkinox and @Shortfiat
And I've been told there might even be room for me to do a live reading of a couple of them at @Bitfest
I'm kinda bricking it because the tough façade is about to be levelled.
Any words of wisdom for someone who has never put herself out there like this before?
#asknostr
The courage it takes to create is the same courage it takes to live with an open heart
Rollo May on creativity and courage:
'A choice confronts us. Shall we, as we feel our foundations shaking,
withdraw in anxiety and panic? Frightened by the loss of our familiar
mooring places, shall we become paralyzed and cover our inaction with apathy? If we do those things, we will have surrendered our chance to participate in the forming of the future. We will have forfeited the distinctive characteristic of human beings - namely, to influence our evolution through our own awareness...
'Or shall we seize the courage necessary to preserve our sensitivity,
awareness, and responsibility in the face of radical change?...
'We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man’s land, to
push into a forest where there are no well-worn paths and from which no one has returned to guide us... To live into the future means to leap into the unknown, and this requires a degree of courage...
'This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been... courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.'
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'This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been... courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.'
