I got some unexpected and well-intentioned responses to my last entry, and I’ve been thinking… again. I think this relates directly to the idea that writing is both intensely personal and intensely public. If done correctly, maybe we don’t have to sacrifice either element:
“The task and potential greatness of mortals lie in their ability to produce things — works and deeds and words — which would deserve to be and, at least to a degree, are at home in everlastingness, so that through them mortals could find their place in a cosmos where everything is immortal except themselves.
By their capacity for the immortal deed, by their ability to leave non-perishable traces behind, men, their individual mortality notwithstanding, attain an immortality of their own and prove themselves to be of a ‘divine’ nature.”
– Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
So you fit Arendt into your own philosophical revelations, eh? A+ Carly!
~ Natalia
She is often hilariously intense. She makes my forehand crinkle… I wonder if she did the same to Hiedigger?
Oh Carly, You are lovely. I am enjoying your writing and your hope hope hope.