Some thoughts about teaching, learning and literature from someone who is still pretty new at this...
Monday, October 31, 2005
Writing
I can't write. You may think this is what I'm doing now, but you're wrong. There are words, and then there are words. There are no words for what I want to write about. I have started this post four times already. There are hidden words that no one will ever see.
No, I am not writing now. There are words here that are signifiers for something, but this is not writing. It can't be. I am unable to write.
I have been unable to write for some time now.
I am wondering if/when it will feel alright to write again. If/when the words will being to flow again from the writer/soul. If/when the words will mean/reveal what I/the writer want them to. It is strange to think that I am typing, but not writing. The keys rise and fall and letters/codes appear/burn but there is nothing/everything to be made from this.
I don't want to write. That is why I am not writing now.
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For those of you/whoever you are/whatever you are for whom my posts have been a little obscure lately, I lost a very dear friend/colleague of mine in a tragic/terrible/unnecessary/hateful accident 5 1/2 weeks ago. It feels like so much longer than that. My fellow 'inquiring mind' is gone and there is so much that I want to talk to him about.
Now that I have started to type about it there isn't really anything else that I want to say.
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Now, you will see that I may start to type again, occasionally, about other things. But don't misunderstand me. I am not writing. Not yet.
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3 comments:
I randomly came across your blog.
Your words are touching. There is a feeling of hallowness, of mechanical existence. I wish you peace... soon.
Good luck.
nb I just want you to know that I am thinking of you...don't know what else to say really...nothing that will offer any comfort...
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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