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Reading a collection of letters of Ralph Ellison, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I can defintiely see a diference between the greats and where I am, and that’s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of these letters go on, taking their time to set a scene, lay out a point, a veritable warm up to a skillful deployment of words. You never get the sense that he\u2019s in a hurry, or he\u2019s just wrting to write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a lot of ideas. Lot of things I want to do and share\u2026but I cannot, for the life of me, slow down. I cannot spend more than an hour doing anything resembling taking my time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of it is that I forget things if I\u2019m in the middle of something else. If I have four ideas, and start working on one, I\u2019ll forget at least one of those ideas I had; it\u2019s just how I\u2019m wired. I take copious notes, but something gets through the cracks every time. Writing somehting, drawing something\u2026doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The letters I write have nowhere close to a portion fo class, wit, and feeling of completeness as Ellison\u2019s, and while that\u2019s not a surprise, his mountaintop of excellence seems very far away from where I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe, with this year, I\u2019ll learn to slow down. I\u2019ll learn to be more\u2026patient? Deliberate? Something. First is to acknowlege, second is to bring a plan of action into\u2026action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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