Ah we all Dive Into The Wreak today. Can relate. My only notes to self on writing are to write like my hairs on fire. Writing seems most related to drumming. We don’t keep the best, we stay with it. Steady like a rock. There are many who will survive this and be sane who need our work.
And I have been an unfounded cognitive scientist (still paid for the number of students in higher ed :) ), who had to "teach" journalism for 10 years, I can assure you, I am not a journalist, although I can write journalism. At your intellectual level, that probably requires some effort to "dumb things down," but that really shouldn't make a difference. My impression is that the audience here wants mostly journalism, although you and I can cautiously provide more, without deterring people. :)
THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME POEM BY POEM
Storm Warnings
The glass has been falling all the afternoon,
And knowing better than the instrument
What winds are walking overhead, what zone
Of gray unrest is moving across the land,
I leave the book upon a pillowed chair
And walk from window to closed window, watching
Boughs strain against the sky.
And think again, as often when the air
Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting,
How with a single purpose time has traveled
By secret currents of the undiscerned
Into this polar realm. Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.
Between foreseeing and averting change
Lies all the mastery of elements
Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter.
Time in the hand is not control of time,
Nor shattered fragments of an instrument
A proof against the wind; the wind will rise,
We can only close the shutters.
I draw the curtains as the sky goes black
and set a match to candles sheathed in glass
Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine
Of weather through the unsealed aperture.
This is our sole defense against the season;
These are the things that we have learned to do
Who live in troubled regions.
– Adrienne Rich
Very good analogy. Ishmael Reed used to say Writing is fighting. I think drumming captures the energy as well and likely in many respects better.
Ah we all Dive Into The Wreak today. Can relate. My only notes to self on writing are to write like my hairs on fire. Writing seems most related to drumming. We don’t keep the best, we stay with it. Steady like a rock. There are many who will survive this and be sane who need our work.
https://youtu.be/mzvk0fWtCs0
You and I should really talk. :)
No "facts," though.
And I have been an unfounded cognitive scientist (still paid for the number of students in higher ed :) ), who had to "teach" journalism for 10 years, I can assure you, I am not a journalist, although I can write journalism. At your intellectual level, that probably requires some effort to "dumb things down," but that really shouldn't make a difference. My impression is that the audience here wants mostly journalism, although you and I can cautiously provide more, without deterring people. :)