Just wanted to share with Jade readers this post Making Light Work just published on Field of Merit, which I typed up this morning. I guess I’m doing this because…it speaks to me! I know that might sound odd since I’m the author however sometimes I’m surprised at what comes out the end of my fingers, having been routed through my brain first of course!
I remember a conversation I had with a chap about creative writing and the reason for writing generally. I admired him so much. A real writer who, in his case, paid his bills by writing instruction manuals for Microsoft back in the very early days! It is fairly standard thinking to say that one writes in order to clarify ones mind. This is true. For me however I find I don’t even know what I think about something and then in the process of stringing words together I find myself pleasantly surprised. And happy. That’s how it is for today.
Reminds me of this:
T. S. Eliot
Little Gidding V
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half heard, in the stillness
Between the two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always–
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
The lines ‘arrive where we started and know it for the first time’ and that all this costs ‘not less than everything’ are in my experience so true.
Thanks Dave for typing out the poem. Love it. Good to visit from time to time.