Sometimes I cringe as I write. Shhhh...don't tell. The thoughts are flowing freely from the creative part of my brain, when suddenly the analytical part kicks a boulder right into the middle of the stream. "You don't want people to know about that!" it screams.
Our brains can wear a lovely cloak of silence that hides every bare naked thought, or we can peel back the cloak, expressing things that connect us with friends, or strangers, in a deep vulnerable emotional and intellectual intimacy. Penetrating through the niceties that cover the surface, bypassing the distraction techniques of the face, written words lay bare our truest selves for inspection. A nakedness that can never be recovered. A word spoken may be forgot. A word written lives forever. Like the porno shots of a young struggling actress may haunt her long after she obtains an Oscar, so the blog prattle of a young author may haunt her even as she holds a Pulitzer.
If I don't post often, or promote extensively, it's because I'm still uncomfortable being intellectually naked in public. There's no photoshopping over ignorance and I'm at least smart enough to know that I don't know everything.
Our brains can wear a lovely cloak of silence that hides every bare naked thought, or we can peel back the cloak, expressing things that connect us with friends, or strangers, in a deep vulnerable emotional and intellectual intimacy. Penetrating through the niceties that cover the surface, bypassing the distraction techniques of the face, written words lay bare our truest selves for inspection. A nakedness that can never be recovered. A word spoken may be forgot. A word written lives forever. Like the porno shots of a young struggling actress may haunt her long after she obtains an Oscar, so the blog prattle of a young author may haunt her even as she holds a Pulitzer.
If I don't post often, or promote extensively, it's because I'm still uncomfortable being intellectually naked in public. There's no photoshopping over ignorance and I'm at least smart enough to know that I don't know everything.
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