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14 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - ...yeah, i\'m not done... · 1 reply · +1 points

"originality is found off the beaten track". Like this a lot. I think it's also found in really listening to yourself as you talk about. This post really got me thinking. Not necessarily in relation to writing or even being an artist, but in relation to how we live our lives. I always get a bit fixated on where I have strayed to an other path, and yet that's where we find ourselves. I find it so hard to tune out the other voices and standards (across so many different things) that I can't hear myself and there's nothing more empty than finding that you tick the box but don't agree with the criteria. I'm going off on a tangent though... Really enjoyed this post :)

14 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - on Japan, weddings, an... · 1 reply · +1 points

I've read this three times now so I echo the comments about how easy it is to get lost in your words. I am taking the leaning into the light thing with me, in relation to both the complexity of the world and on a personal level. Thanks for sharing this. Issa
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14 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - what it is, nothing more · 1 reply · +1 points

Thank you. Beyond touched by this. I guess I concentrate on the areas where I am still a little scared of sticking my head above the parapet rather than those where I've pushed through the fear barrier. My courage seems introspective rather than social/political/cultural. I guess one of the things I love about your writing and tweets is that you seem to also extend into this sphere. Hoping to get there too one day. xx
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15 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - what it is, nothing more · 3 replies · +1 points

I've read this a few times now and each time I read it, I love it a little more. My own lack of courage is one of my biggest sources of frustration but, because I am also worried about being inauthentic, I often end up taking the middle ground and saying nothing at all or cushionning my words. I'm going to keep coming back to this post because it inspires me to speak/write/think just as I am. I love how you write.
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15 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - dead calm · 1 reply · +1 points

Even if you don't have anything to say, I love reading your writing. There's content but there's also sound and connection and all the other stuff...and not just in a hear yourself talking kind of way. Or that's what I reckon. Hope you feel better soon. Echinacea? xx
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15 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - smoke and mirrors · 1 reply · +1 points

Really interesting post. I'm too scared to comment on poetry and even more scared to write it, even though the sounds of words running together is a big part of what I love about writing. I think you're right that art is a mirror (Emily Dickinson is my totally favourite poet and she manages to show me the stuff that I can't see about what I'm feeling, and her words vibrate with feeling) - but I also wonder what we learn from our reaction to it. There's the getting it wrong thing but I think that poetry makes us vulnerable in a different way - haven't quite thought this through yet but there's something about poetry that is very active and interactive and exposing in some way...and I wonder if that's what makes it hard to talk about. Dunno. You've inspired me though. As always.
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15 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - the more things change... · 1 reply · +1 points

Part 2. That was on the way home. Reading your post again, this hit me: "too many giddy feelings at times for fear that I’m getting proud and will soon fall". It hit me because that has always been my biggest fear so the empathy was sharp; but also because it reminded me of why this internal debate (who am I, what's predestined etc.) is always so complicated. I can't untangle what's a characteristic - or an experience - or a learned behaviour - or a genetic trait - or what I would have been...

I haven't reached a conclusion or managed to reconcile this yet. I suppose what I'm recognising is that the emotions are the guide as well - like the times when the energy unexpectedly provokes enthusiasm or when you feel that it's right in your gut. Maybe. I'm rambling... Thanks for giving me so much to think about. xx

15 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - the more things change... · 0 replies · +1 points

Part 1. I wrote a really long comment on the bus. It was about the fact that I'd tried for a long time to define and explain who I was (that bit comes from xxx and that bit is because I am xxx); and, that, more recently, I've started to think that we never know ourselves fully. Not in a lack of awareness kind of way, or in one that doesn't take responsibility, but because we can surprise ourselves and discover new parts all the time.

15 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - lest we forget (A Blog... · 1 reply · +1 points

I heard a scary fact the other day about the number of people who hadn't heard of the holocaust. I won't quote it as I don't know where it came from, but I think it's important to remember and acknowledge these moments. I hadn't thought about the empathy perspective before in relation to this but I think that's a crucial point. Thanks for writing this. xx

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