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Godspeed – The Pace Of Being Known

Godspeed – The Pace Of Being Known

Stop what you are doing and watch this 30 minute documentary by Matt Canlis on slowing down and being known.

In short: To have an impact, to matter to others, we need to be known within a small group of people.

Our modern and urban pace of life seems to prevent this in nearly every single way.

But I remember glimmers of this, almost inescapable, knownness from living in Saudi Arabia. For the community was so small that it was hard to hide, even if you wanted to.

Christ had a narrow but deep impact as well, traveling little outside a small patch of land where, truly, everyone knew everyone.

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It’s Just A Book, After All

It’s Just A Book, After All

Is a book just a book?

Or is it a window into the life of the author?

I think maybe the answer to both is: Yes.

We, of course, expose ourselves with everything we write and say, but it by no means defines us.

Maybe a body of work explains us a little more than any single book or blog post will – but certainly don’t read anything I write and think that you know me in any real way.

A picture, or a painting, or a book, can not begin to articulate the whole of a person.

I just loved this little retort.

When faced with the exposure question, I bring to mind a conversation I once witnessed between the memoirist Frank McCourt and a woman he’d just met at a dinner party. Her: I feel like I know everything about you. Him (not even blinking): Oh, darlin’. It’s just a book. It’s just a book. He delivered it with impeccable timing, and in the kindest possible way but it . . . well . . . it shut her up. But the truth is that we can feel exposed by our books—if we let that happen. And not just the memoirists among us. Fiction can be even more exposing than memoir—a map to the inner world, the subconscious internal workings, the obsessions and fears and secret joys of the writer.

-Dani Shapiro, Still Writing

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