WATERMARK

Here we are, a day from Week 5, and I've not yet written about the Week 3 & 4 Webcasts.

I'm trying a new approach, the AlAnon adage Take what you like and leave the rest. Whiskey River, as is often the case, gives me just what I need:

"Listening, whether to a book or to a person, is the
most challenging of the arts, because in listening truly we have to
become aware of our own resistances to what is being said, which might
be the truth; we must be able to be open and vulnerable in following
the thoughts of another person as sincerely, deeply, and imaginatively
as we can."
– Krishnan Venkatesh

Of course, there is also this point of view, via Ample Sanity:

"Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence it is almost
impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening to men
without snickering."
– H.L. Mencken

Actually, though, I am listening. And reading. I'm reading several books at once, and the massive handouts for the Life Writing class I'll be taking next month. I'm also writing. Just not here.

I will be here in April, though.