Because I am part of a community of writers and learners...
My classes do weekly blog posts. This is mine from last week. Preface: I find it a great privilege to be a part of this community of thinkers and writers. I appreciate the anxiety that can be induced by having an audience of your peers, and the expectation of responsibility we place upon each other to engage with the respect we all hope for ourselves. In spite of - perhaps in part because of - those challenges, and vulnerabilities, to have an opportunity to discuss big questions of being human, and to write not only with the aim of expressing those ideas, but of finding and cultivating a writer’s voice, is a rare kind of opportunity. And I have been squandering it. One of my intentions for the new year is to schedule time in my days for writing. I decided before break that one of the ways I am going to do that is by responding to the weekly blog posts beyond just reading them and occasionally briefly responding to people. (That this week’s topic is something so connecte...