Vagueness is how we avoid being accountable to our own feelings. And once you see that, you can’t unsee it. You start noticing it everywhere. In your own excuses, in your own stories about why things happened the way they did, in the things you keep ALMOST saying but never quite do. Clarity is a door you can’t close once you’ve opened it. And whatever you’ve been circling, whatever lives just outside the edges of what you’re willing to say out loud, that’s the thing. That’s exactly the thing. That’s where you have to start.
“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.” - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced them that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."