Comments on: Quick update, mostly writerly, with bonus discussion ?s http://reesabrown.com/2010/07/28/quick-update-mostly-writerly-with-bonus-discussion-s/ the life and writerly times of Reesa Brown Mon, 21 May 2012 23:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Reesa http://reesabrown.com/2010/07/28/quick-update-mostly-writerly-with-bonus-discussion-s/#comment-1436 Reesa Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:38:05 +0000 http://reesabrown.com/?p=892#comment-1436 @Mary -- yay thanks for commenting, was hoping you'd weigh in! Good sum-up of a lot of the struggle of creative-block-as-lack-of-physical energy problem, thanks. Yay sharing poetry! @Mary — yay thanks for commenting, was hoping you’d weigh in! Good sum-up of a lot of the struggle of creative-block-as-lack-of-physical energy problem, thanks. Yay sharing poetry!

]]> By: Mary Bass http://reesabrown.com/2010/07/28/quick-update-mostly-writerly-with-bonus-discussion-s/#comment-1435 Mary Bass Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:53:37 +0000 http://reesabrown.com/?p=892#comment-1435 This is a poem I wrote in 1992. I was ill and knew I was going to become much more so but by comparison to today I was like a healthy person. I believed these words back then and I still do. It was published for the first time in 1994. Seeing Through The Battle Here I am, a product of my creased and wrinkled dreams, scattered promises fulfilling over time. No happy ever after as foretold in yon wee days, fighting across the chasm of confusion in my mind. But lo, one small light in a dark valley evidences a gradual lightening of my blues and provides a beginning understanding for which I need no audience, I need no clues. Although I've paid the price of dreams, I'm ready for the challenge. With prayers for winds of happiness and cleansing fires of spirit, to find well sought alternatives on opportunity's edge. Step by baby step I go, sometimes with one amiss, finding as I struggle forth, ah - to pay my dues, there lies uncovered many types of bliss. All are mine, just mine, from day-by-day to choose. This is a poem I wrote in 1992. I was ill and knew I was going to become much more so but by comparison to today I was like a healthy person. I believed these words back then and I still do.

It was published for the first time in 1994.

Seeing Through The Battle

Here I am, a product of my creased and wrinkled dreams,

scattered promises fulfilling over time.

No happy ever after as foretold in yon wee days,

fighting across the chasm of confusion in my mind.

But lo, one small light in a dark valley

evidences a gradual lightening of my blues

and provides a beginning understanding

for which I need no audience, I need no clues.

Although I’ve paid the price of dreams,

I’m ready for the challenge.

With prayers for winds of happiness and cleansing fires of spirit,

to find well sought alternatives on opportunity’s edge.

Step by baby step I go, sometimes with one amiss,

finding as I struggle forth, ah - to pay my dues,

there lies uncovered many types of bliss.

All are mine, just mine, from day-by-day to choose.

]]> By: Mary Bass http://reesabrown.com/2010/07/28/quick-update-mostly-writerly-with-bonus-discussion-s/#comment-1432 Mary Bass Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:11:47 +0000 http://reesabrown.com/?p=892#comment-1432 From the perspective of long term chronicity in disease, one of the difficult things to deal with in working with your creativity is that when you have to use so much energy just to stay alive and so much energy to do the things you have to do then there is little to no energy left to do what you want to do. This is very apparent in regard to your writing and other creative pursuits. The physical drain is just too much and this affects the mental capacities too so you end up physically drained and mentally drained as well. The time it takes for many of us to recuperate is much, much longer than for a healthy person. It can take from hours to days. Therefore, if one hopes to execute creative prowess, one must plan ahead and/or take things in baby steps. Every opportunity one has to be productive in a creative mode must be taken. One of the most important things to consider and practice when chronically ill is to be in a positive frame of mind as much as possible and to not give in to disease and the ravages of it, physcially, mentally, and emotionally any more than absolutely necessary. Be a fighter! From the perspective of long term chronicity in disease, one of the difficult things to deal with in working with your creativity is that when you have to use so much energy just to stay alive and so much energy to do the things you have to do then there is little to no energy left to do what you want to do. This is very apparent in regard to your writing and other creative pursuits. The physical drain is just too much and this affects the mental capacities too so you end up physically drained and mentally drained as well. The time it takes for many of us to recuperate is much, much longer than for a healthy person. It can take from hours to days. Therefore, if one hopes to execute creative prowess, one must plan ahead and/or take things in baby steps. Every opportunity one has to be productive in a creative mode must be taken. One of the most important things to consider and practice when chronically ill is to be in a positive frame of mind as much as possible and to not give in to disease and the ravages of it, physcially, mentally, and emotionally any more than absolutely necessary. Be a fighter!

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