Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. – Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby (forthcoming) * Colla Melosa, Italy,…
Tag: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Going Wild – a collective list
Between the laundry and the fetching kids from school, that’s how birds enter my life. I listen. K. Jamie * * * RECOMMENDED READING Annie Dillard: EVERYTHING Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust W. G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, Campo Santo Alice Oswald: Dart Kathleen Jamie: Findings J.A….
Get Lost!
Lately, Nature Writing has become a favorite genre of mine. Having studied literature for many years, I’m not really sure why or how I ended up here? I just know that I have so much more yet discover – which is a fantastic feeling in itself! For as long as people have been writing, they…