I borrowed this book from the library because I wasn’t sure I would like it, afraid it would all be over my head. I have since bought my own because I kept copying so much of it. I am 53 and my kids are grown, out of the house one year now, this book seems the perfect transition book, (although I also thought about how I might have looked at life differently if I had read it earlier, the message resonates with all ages.) It’s time to claim and embrace the possibilities of this new life. If I had to pick one line, it would be, “Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths….To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many many endings, and many beginnings – all in the same relationship.” I read that and thought: Why has no one ever told me this???? I feel like I was always told relationships were always good or bad, never that even good relationships were a series of adjustments. It makes the ups and downs of marriage seem so much more normal, expected, healthy, unavoidable. Even in motherhood, I am lucky enough to still be close with both of my kids, but parenting is all about renegotiating roles, each time with its own beauty and challenges, deaths and rebirths. What a great recommendation!
I'd love to know your favourite chapters or passages in it... I love the whole section about the importance of the handmade life (just one of many sections I've underlined more than hardly any other book).
Do let me know how you get on if you do. The Artists' Way was a huge part of how I began my regular writing habit back in 2013, that just three years later led to my minor but also precious-to-me public writing life. I suddenly miss that ritual of writing rough almost illegible notes early in the morning... after a long spell of being too tired and unwell and overworked to rise early, I feel like trying again. Did you ever do the morning pages, or do you still?
Oh I loved Terra Incognita . I bought this for my husband just before we got married and the year after I finished Uni in Glasgow . Then living in Suffolk it made me miss the space in Scotland so much more . Her writing is beautiful and the sense of space and smallness resonated and is humbling. Enjoyed her Chile one too 👍
I borrowed this book from the library because I wasn’t sure I would like it, afraid it would all be over my head. I have since bought my own because I kept copying so much of it. I am 53 and my kids are grown, out of the house one year now, this book seems the perfect transition book, (although I also thought about how I might have looked at life differently if I had read it earlier, the message resonates with all ages.) It’s time to claim and embrace the possibilities of this new life. If I had to pick one line, it would be, “Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths….To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many many endings, and many beginnings – all in the same relationship.” I read that and thought: Why has no one ever told me this???? I feel like I was always told relationships were always good or bad, never that even good relationships were a series of adjustments. It makes the ups and downs of marriage seem so much more normal, expected, healthy, unavoidable. Even in motherhood, I am lucky enough to still be close with both of my kids, but parenting is all about renegotiating roles, each time with its own beauty and challenges, deaths and rebirths. What a great recommendation!
I like the idea of that one - it is on my list now
This is a great book I bought in the mid 90s an absolute classic embracing the wild women within us!
I'd love to know your favourite chapters or passages in it... I love the whole section about the importance of the handmade life (just one of many sections I've underlined more than hardly any other book).
I have The Artist Way which I pull out and read parts of over and over. I will try women who run with wolves.
Do let me know how you get on if you do. The Artists' Way was a huge part of how I began my regular writing habit back in 2013, that just three years later led to my minor but also precious-to-me public writing life. I suddenly miss that ritual of writing rough almost illegible notes early in the morning... after a long spell of being too tired and unwell and overworked to rise early, I feel like trying again. Did you ever do the morning pages, or do you still?
Oh I loved Terra Incognita . I bought this for my husband just before we got married and the year after I finished Uni in Glasgow . Then living in Suffolk it made me miss the space in Scotland so much more . Her writing is beautiful and the sense of space and smallness resonated and is humbling. Enjoyed her Chile one too 👍