Dear This is Weird: Why Staring Directly At The World Hurts Us … But Also Saves Us (And Transforms Our Writing)
Lit Salon addresses the question of why we find it so damn hard to just say what something is, and leave it at that + attention as mindfulness + what's cooking got to do with it? + new classes!
Mary Oliver said the world offers itself to our imagination, but she also admonished us, over and over and over again, to change our lives, starting with paying attention. Paying attention was something the beloved poet was famously and unabashedly expert at doing—she walked in the world and stared at it up close, saw it for what it was, every single day of her life.
Most of us don’t.