NOTES: WRITING AS CELEBRATION

Writing as Celebration

There was a time when I reached out to the process of writing the way someone drowning in an Arctic sea would lunge for a life-line thrown from a rescue ship.  Writing was a way of affirming my life, a way of assuring myself that somewhere deep inside I was alive and well, and that if I could just keep in touch with my inner life long enough, I could survive the wilderness, the storms, and the trials.  Now, writing has become something new: it is not so much my salvation, as an ongoing celebration – of me, of you, of life itself.

Being Alone

Being alone is not such a bad thing as most people believe, especially when you can use your solitude to nurture strength and wisdom. Even when I have felt most alone, I have intuitively understood that profoundly useful things were happening to me.  I have always known that someday, in some way, my suffering would make a difference, and that from the shadows of anguish and despair, great joy and wholeness would emerge, however long this might take. “And the heavens shall open, and pour you forth a blessing, such as you shall not be prepared to receive it.”

Patterns

I am aware of certain patterns in my life, and I am aware that when one pattern has served its purpose, a new form, a new structure for my energies appears. My patterns are not an end in themselves, but rather convenient structures for focusing purpose, emotion, time, space, and desire.  My patterns provide convenient, albeit ephemeral, points of reference and relationship in the fast-flowing stream of events and circumstances swirling around me.  My patterns are not my life. They can never contain me for long, because I am always reaching and growing beyond them.  My patterns are simply a living architecture for containing and comprehending the essential process of change itself, which is what I believe life, at its best, is all about.

Alex Noble

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