- My mother, which really goes without saying, but particularly this week, because for the first time she called me asking for advice and I was able to help her.
- "You ask yourself: why is the mother's body safe? / The answer is this is the wrong question, since / the daughter's body doesn't exist, except as a branch of the mother's body that needs to be reattached at any cost." From Louise Gluck's "Persephone the Wanderer."
- "Had I listened more closely I would have heard, among other secrets, that when one is young almost every story begins with and returns to a mother and child." From Vivian Paley's A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play.
- John Ridley, who just won an Academy Award for the incredible 12 Years A Slave. In an interview he said that he does most of his writing in his car in the parking lot where his kids go to school.
- My friend who died last week and my other friend who found out her girlfriend had been cheating on her. The tragedy of lives that are too young to be dealing with this shit.
- Kali, a goddess of feminine power and the entity of beyond-time. The mother goddess, the dark one who existed before light.
- The return of "RuPaul's Drag Race." Don't judge me, the creative energy those queens exude is nothing but inspirational. The beauty of April Carrion is particularly inspiring to me right now (although my heart will never forget previous seasons' Alaska and Raja).
- My dog, who can sleep in these odd, disjointed positions, because her anatomy is not the same as mine, and I cannot comprehend her comfort.
- As always, my fiction group, who are struggling as I am, but will hopefully be succeeding as I am as well.
- Deadlines. They inspire me to work, but I cannot say they inspire me to create. But that's okay; right now I need to work.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Katy's Sixth Post
My group decided that we are all in need of some inspiration, so here are the things that are inspiring me this week:
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It is so interesting that you included this quote in your inspiration: From Louise Gluck's "Persephone the Wanderer."
ReplyDeleteI really connected with this quote. One year, a couple of years ago, I started having panic attacks and the didn't stop. When I was little my mom had them, but I never understood what they were or what it meant that she was having them. I always gave her grief about it because we always had to randomly leave things we were doing on a whim. Even if we had just gotten somewhere.
Now looking back, I sometimes feel that this was the Universe reminding me of where I came from and to go back to my roots, in a sense. It was completely humbling few years of my life. I literally felt like I had returned to some sort of womb and no longer existed as my own entity anymore. It was like no matter what I did--my body made me stop and retract. It was like my body was trying to reconnect me with something, only I had no idea what that was. A realignment of sorts, like a return to sender message that was on repeat until I could figure out what or where the sender actually was.
I also have lost loved ones way too soon before their time. It makes sense that these are the things inspiring your writing because your story comes from a deep place. These things take you to that place inside yourself so you feel the feelings you are trying to write about, its really a beautiful thing.
And can I just say--I heart you for the Mother Goddess name drop. Kali is amazballs!
sorry about your loss for sure, peace and power and light.
ReplyDeletegreat inspirations. Great dialogue among your class.