tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post4001079909259302529..comments2023-09-26T05:33:04.420-07:00Comments on Marylinn Kelly: When the morning voices are silentMarylinn Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-10540080015897627522012-03-07T11:54:08.323-08:002012-03-07T11:54:08.323-08:00Angella - Thank you. There is a factor of creepin...Angella - Thank you. There is a factor of creeping anxiety that shows up when it seems we are being kept at a distance from ourselves or our voices for too long. Learning to relax into that is a challenge. We are asked to be patient about so many things, you think it would become easier. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-73881875802927331072012-03-07T07:10:02.788-08:002012-03-07T07:10:02.788-08:00i don't think I've ever read a more precis...i don't think I've ever read a more precise and lyrical description of what it feels like to be creatively stuck, unable to pick apart the threads. And also to the way the body becomes involved, that too. I have been in this place. I know it well. You may be in a gathering cycle rather than a sowing one, despite this beautiful writing. Be gentle with yourself. I will try to do the same with myself. Hugs.37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-74596595281224097612012-03-06T10:57:21.805-08:002012-03-06T10:57:21.805-08:00Rachel - Small or feverish, or both, or neither. ...Rachel - Small or feverish, or both, or neither. Trying to wrangle the interior voices into a seemly shape before committing them to the page may be where I go astray. Order may be overrated. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-83030340445141362692012-03-06T10:54:55.212-08:002012-03-06T10:54:55.212-08:00Melissa - I can't honestly say it is malaise, ...Melissa - I can't honestly say it is malaise, though it feels that way in certain moments. I brought what I could summon to try and pin it to the mat. And by doing so, may have opened the door to a "no matter what" post on Tuesday. I wrote yesterday, I wrote today. Thank you. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-54255647825335154552012-03-06T10:52:14.784-08:002012-03-06T10:52:14.784-08:00Rubye - Rubye - Thank you, for I am not always cer...Rubye - Rubye - Thank you, for I am not always certain of anything approaching clarity. It may be that this, let's call it an exercise, helped me be less stuck. Flux is a fitting word and perceiving from a different plane is always accurate. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-69579755637105741452012-03-06T10:49:45.536-08:002012-03-06T10:49:45.536-08:00Donna - We do hit those quiet patches, the trick b...Donna - We do hit those quiet patches, the trick being not to allow silence to overpower us, or not for long. Glad to see you here. I know I've been missing in many places for quite a while. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-56893367466067092052012-03-06T10:48:16.866-08:002012-03-06T10:48:16.866-08:00Beth - A thanks to you in the Tuesday post for thi...Beth - A thanks to you in the Tuesday post for this comment, the "no matter what" school of writing. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-7092885485456239722012-03-06T10:46:15.153-08:002012-03-06T10:46:15.153-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-13039442394558264322012-03-06T10:43:21.217-08:002012-03-06T10:43:21.217-08:00Susan - Here, on Tuesday, there DO seem to be many...Susan - Here, on Tuesday, there DO seem to be many voices...and they were all permitted to speak. At least there were not too many choices, just enough. For today.<br /><br />I fear that Agee is nearly forgotten, glad to know the fan club is bigger than I thought. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-26274651169531484842012-03-06T09:21:03.731-08:002012-03-06T09:21:03.731-08:00You are not alone today. Not in the least. Mr. Bra...You are not alone today. Not in the least. Mr. Bradbury has been here too, I'm certain of it. Even though he claims not to. Every day is new. Every day brings new voices - small or feverish.<br />xoRachelVBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312736736551027564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-68926480608635015642012-03-06T05:40:12.783-08:002012-03-06T05:40:12.783-08:00Dear Marylinn, clearly this is more than a dry spe...Dear Marylinn, clearly this is more than a dry spell, a writer's block. Whatever the malaise is, you've begun to describe it, and therein lies the beginning of your power over it.<br /><br />Already you've described it as 'an altered state, like being hit with soft lighting.' This phrase encapsulates<br />the feeling but with the writer's sure touch, returned to you here. You have your old wit back,shaky though it may be when you write 'sleepshufflers. More accurately sleepsitters. Merely considering such a notion probably condemns me to eating luch at the crop circle table." It is all witty and wry, and though it does nothing--at the moment--to lift the body's heavy limbs and return our capacity for your normal creative capability, I think naming it will start the process of sweeping the virus out of our household altogether.<br /><br />You had the thread of an idea lately, and thank God you were wise enough to put it in a Draft folder, until your strength has returned and you can write what you intended about 'enlightenment.' For now you have to be patient, and know and believe that the idea is still waiting for you , when you are ready for it.<br /><br />Again, there is wry humor in describing what this altered state feels like--you know you have done as Bradbury has, stuffed yourself with every conceivable nourishment, but it feels to you--and you make it vivid to us--a too small house being taken over by too may relatives with boundary issues--forgive me for chortling here--who didn't even bring the most essential items because they knew they could mooch off of you. Again, the old Marylinn is returning. And of course you would be delegated to sleeping on the sunporch, probably with no heat, and expected to put meals on the table for these ingrates and scroungers.<br /><br />You are writing. You have written this to describe to us and to yourself this awful, altered state. You have stood up to Mr. Bradbury and declared that you have done all you can do--and I think you will discover, after this spell is over, that this was the beginning of how it all changed. You are a writer. And you wrote. xoMelissa Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270919534011711225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-22153052374248520652012-03-06T02:00:53.265-08:002012-03-06T02:00:53.265-08:00loved the Bradbury quotes... I seem to be crossing...loved the Bradbury quotes... I seem to be crossing a desert of silence myself...wanted to stop by to say HI...been way too long...Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07015770616281528620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-90527780736553007662012-03-05T17:48:43.626-08:002012-03-05T17:48:43.626-08:00The Ray Bradbury quote...ain't me. Today I fel...The Ray Bradbury quote...ain't me. Today I fell into the slough of despond, happens sometimes. I made myself write. I made myself. And that's the best I got, for now.beth coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04671290135595711572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-8870175378209939652012-03-05T16:50:52.513-08:002012-03-05T16:50:52.513-08:00I see no lack of voices here, only a very well-exp...I see no lack of voices here, only a very well-expressed mind who seems very in touch with herself. Much more so than many others. <br />It sounds like things are changing for you or in a bit of flux as you perceive from a different plane. Or something like that?Rubye Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02511953177053448513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400078448867068387.post-87256915645999936642012-03-05T12:55:30.717-08:002012-03-05T12:55:30.717-08:00i am inclined to be glib and ask what is worse: to...i am inclined to be glib and ask what is worse: too many voices or none at all? but i do understand what youre saying...<br />for me, the too many voices tends to take a physical form; i am unable to sit down...i literally feel tugged in too many directions at once.<br /><br />(btw, *huge* James Agee fan, here)susan t. landryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454487318141469849noreply@blogger.com