Book: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982 Harper Collins 2007
Why: It’s just a little reminder in a world of texting, Twitter, Facebook and all the rest to stop and breathe. Keeping busy does block out the ills of the world but you can feel it – when you forget to just be still, running with the pack day after day – the loss of self.
Creative impulse doesn’t only apply to Artists and Writers, it apples to living your life in the moment with family friends and your self.
January 19, 1973. Days of teaching; meeting with students; talking with colleagues. The irresistible pull of the external world. One could very easily lose oneself within it…”keeping busy” is the remedy for all ills in America. It’s also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
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Julie Proudfoot - Author 
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