You are not being graded, and you do not receive extra credit for being miserable 100% of the time. You are not betraying your grief by feeling joy. Give the present the gift of your full attention. Stop rewinding and replaying the past in your mind. If we’re not careful, we can revise the life right out of them.
As counterintuitive as it sounds, you can polish it dull. If you’re not careful, you can scrub all the weirdness and wildness right out of it. I believe strongly in the importance of revision, but here’s something I believe just as strongly: If you’re not careful, you can revise the life right out of a piece of writing. Any bolded emphasis is mine and I’ve added a bit of commentary within “”. Hopefully by now you know how I feel about quotes – here are some of my favourites. In terms of structure, the book is quite short and most pages contain a single quote from the author or a string of related thoughts. My summary: I really, really, really enjoyed this book. I can’t directly relate to either of these traumas, but I found the takeaways universally applicable. The author had suffered a number of devastating miscarriages and the surprising breakdown of her relationship. Keep Moving is written from a position of vulnerability. (A copy of which, fortuitously, happened to be on the shelf at my local branch how I love the library). A few weeks ago Nicole mentioned the book Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith after reading her description of the book, I immediately hopped over to my library portal and placed a hold.
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