Finding creative clarity at the start of a new season

How writing a letter to my own writing reminded me how precious this exchange can be

“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.” —Koun Yamada

I have been doing all the things. Maybe to avoid the news. Maybe to avoid my own emotions. Maybe to feel as though I’m doing something of value in the world. Or maybe, just maybe, to avoid what means the most to me.

So long as we don’t do the thing, we can stil…