Beginning again

Perhaps for the writer, beginner’s mind can begin with the notion of writing as a journey, an exploration with no specific destination in mind.

As I explore what it means to be a writer, I find myself trying to emerge from a culture that glamorizes the expert, the thought leader, the social media influencer, the advisor, the guru. 

It seems I’ll be forever emerging and never emerged, for this culture is like an oozy swamp that seems inseparable from modern consumerist society.

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We are not who

We are not who

they say we are.

We are not who

they think we are.

Who do they think

they are?

They who say

what they think

without

understanding.

Without

seeking.

Without

seeing.

Without looking

or asking

or questioning

themselves.

We are who

we are

whether we say

what we are.

Or whether they

say what they think

we are.

Whatever they think.

We are.

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