The Personal is Universal: Cultivating Awareness, Vulnerability, & Advocacy Through Writing

Last quote I just wanna read is from an amazing book called The Artist Way that Chelsea sent to me. It was an amazing faculty member here. So I just want to acknowledge it cause I think She speaks really well to The idea of awareness at work.

So in this book, The Artist's way, which is really a workbook about finding spirituality and The creative writing process. Julia Cameron wrote in a year when a long and rewarding love affair was lurching gracelessly away from The center of her life. The writer May Sarton kept a JOURNAL of Solitude in it. She reports coming home from a particularly painful weekend with her lover entering her empty house. I was stopped by The threshold of my study by a ray on a Korean chrysanthemum. Lighting it up like a spotlight, deep red petals and Chinese yellow center seeing it was like getting a transfusion of autumn light.

And then julia goes on to write. It's no accident that May Sarton uses The word transfusion. The loss of her lover was a wound and in Her response to that chrysanthemum in The act of paying attention, Sartons healing began.