Is it unfeeling to say how excited I am when your newsletters show up in my email? For us who are close to stories that aren't ours but are central, you ask all the questions. So I feel affirmed.
You are such a richly original thinker. The idea of the size of the frame. Of slantwise writing. Of circling the realm of secrets, the how of language. I feel so very honored, Sonya, to be part of a craft library assembled by you, knowing, as I do, as we do, that in the end, it is all up to us, all threaded through with the values we have come to carry as writers and as people. xo
Thank you, as always, for being generous enough to share what feels possible and helpful to share, and for modeling the wisdom of holding some things back. Discerning what and how much to disclose—for the sake of the reader, and the writer, and loved ones, and the writing—is a difficult art.
I so often have felt isolated during my child's suffering with mental illness. Thank goodness have a circle of support. I've slowly realized that I can't breathe with the circle too small. So I've grown in my transparency, carefully. But if she had a different ailment I could garner all kinds of sympathy and prayers and meal trains and cards and Facebook posts and caring bridge updates. But, she does not present a sympathetic character and I don't want to hurt her future with a traceable, public spectacle caused by her mother's need. This has been a hard place. But this is life! Love you!!
I love your voice and will follow you everywhere. Even (and especially?) to the car crying with cupcakes.
Is it unfeeling to say how excited I am when your newsletters show up in my email? For us who are close to stories that aren't ours but are central, you ask all the questions. So I feel affirmed.
I love this--not unfeeling at all!! Thank you for being with me in this weird, hard series of questions xoxoxox
You are such a richly original thinker. The idea of the size of the frame. Of slantwise writing. Of circling the realm of secrets, the how of language. I feel so very honored, Sonya, to be part of a craft library assembled by you, knowing, as I do, as we do, that in the end, it is all up to us, all threaded through with the values we have come to carry as writers and as people. xo
Thank you so much, Beth!!
Thank you, as always, for being generous enough to share what feels possible and helpful to share, and for modeling the wisdom of holding some things back. Discerning what and how much to disclose—for the sake of the reader, and the writer, and loved ones, and the writing—is a difficult art.
This is just stunningly beautiful, Sonya. Thank you for your wisdom, for your kindness, for thinking bigger.
I so often have felt isolated during my child's suffering with mental illness. Thank goodness have a circle of support. I've slowly realized that I can't breathe with the circle too small. So I've grown in my transparency, carefully. But if she had a different ailment I could garner all kinds of sympathy and prayers and meal trains and cards and Facebook posts and caring bridge updates. But, she does not present a sympathetic character and I don't want to hurt her future with a traceable, public spectacle caused by her mother's need. This has been a hard place. But this is life! Love you!!