Did you think of yourself as a creative kid? What does creativity look like for you these days? I did not think of myself as a creative kid at all. I had a few wounds regarding being “bad at art” because I was bad at cutting with scissors and being a bad singer. My mom is also a major perfectionist, so she definitely had the tendency to “edit” or take over some of my creative projects.
Thanks Heidi, we have turned a gift that helps us know when to dream, do, edit, and rest, that helps us have prophetic dreams, that helps us build an altar to life every month into, "well, here's an embarrassing pain in the ass you'll have to deal with foe the next 40 years" is one of the griefs of my life.
For sure! I think the next generation is in a better place, but it will probably take many more years to undo the damage that was done with that mindset.
I feel this as a woman. The quote from Amy's poem: "My blood was a curse
There were no wise women to tell me different
None who knew it ever to be otherwise"
hits me because it's something I have also felt and wondered at. The female legacy has been lost, and I like how Amy points this out and also seeks rediscovery.
This quote also is resonant for me:
"In definitions of success that don’t involve
Achievement
Accomplishment
Accumulation
Polite ways of saying conquest"
Again, this is something I've felt and have expressed in my own poetry and life in subtle ways. For me, subtlety is powerful and sensitive, but can be overlooked with the louder, more masculine and forward-attending actions of our current imbalanced culture.
I never felt like I had more to unlearn than when I became a mom. It's such a powerful shift and reveals so much that we couldn't see before when we were taught this is just the way things are.
Thanks Heidi, we have turned a gift that helps us know when to dream, do, edit, and rest, that helps us have prophetic dreams, that helps us build an altar to life every month into, "well, here's an embarrassing pain in the ass you'll have to deal with foe the next 40 years" is one of the griefs of my life.
For sure! I think the next generation is in a better place, but it will probably take many more years to undo the damage that was done with that mindset.
I feel this as a woman. The quote from Amy's poem: "My blood was a curse
There were no wise women to tell me different
None who knew it ever to be otherwise"
hits me because it's something I have also felt and wondered at. The female legacy has been lost, and I like how Amy points this out and also seeks rediscovery.
This quote also is resonant for me:
"In definitions of success that don’t involve
Achievement
Accomplishment
Accumulation
Polite ways of saying conquest"
Again, this is something I've felt and have expressed in my own poetry and life in subtle ways. For me, subtlety is powerful and sensitive, but can be overlooked with the louder, more masculine and forward-attending actions of our current imbalanced culture.
I never felt like I had more to unlearn than when I became a mom. It's such a powerful shift and reveals so much that we couldn't see before when we were taught this is just the way things are.
It does feel like, as Amy K. Bell said, radicalization. Politically, but personally for sure.