nulla dies sine linea
Never a Day Without a Line
Horace 65-8 BC
What have you written, created, dreamed today?
Comments
R. David Druckersays
Mary Lou!
This doesn’t count for my line for today (already done many), but I just want to thank you for your blog – gave me quite a lift and I didn’t even know I was down (just a little past sundown, so no surprise in retrospect). Ever since reading Mary Oliver’s “Rules of the Dance” quite a while ago, I’ve known that I do have to write something every day and I do. But it’s more than a necessary task to get things done, it’s also the only way to evolve from a too lightly won comfort zone! Can’t agree with you more. You can’t be a writer (quilter, musician . . . ) without writing (quilting, playing music . . .). And the comfort and joy of having done it and knowing that you can continue to do it anytime and find more joy and discovery doing it . . . I’m not quite sure why so many find it so difficult to do – fear of the unknown? All I know now is that I love to run to the unknown because I’ve discovered it’s not unknowable! Currently on a one poem a day habit and finding out many things I’d forgotten decades ago!
Anyway, too much yak – this is just a thank you note for your heart-felt cheerleading!
Thank you, David. So nice to have you on board.
I love the poem-a-day habit. You inspire. I have slipped in my haiku-a-day practice. But, I do manage “never a day without a line” of some sort.
nulla dies sine linea
R. David Drucker says
Mary Lou!
This doesn’t count for my line for today (already done many), but I just want to thank you for your blog – gave me quite a lift and I didn’t even know I was down (just a little past sundown, so no surprise in retrospect). Ever since reading Mary Oliver’s “Rules of the Dance” quite a while ago, I’ve known that I do have to write something every day and I do. But it’s more than a necessary task to get things done, it’s also the only way to evolve from a too lightly won comfort zone! Can’t agree with you more. You can’t be a writer (quilter, musician . . . ) without writing (quilting, playing music . . .). And the comfort and joy of having done it and knowing that you can continue to do it anytime and find more joy and discovery doing it . . . I’m not quite sure why so many find it so difficult to do – fear of the unknown? All I know now is that I love to run to the unknown because I’ve discovered it’s not unknowable! Currently on a one poem a day habit and finding out many things I’d forgotten decades ago!
Anyway, too much yak – this is just a thank you note for your heart-felt cheerleading!
Keep on keeping on!
Dave
Mary Lou Bagley says
Thank you, David. So nice to have you on board.
I love the poem-a-day habit. You inspire. I have slipped in my haiku-a-day practice. But, I do manage “never a day without a line” of some sort.