Sustainable Equitation
  • ARTICLES
    • LIVING SUSTAINABLY >
      • The Rider Athlete
      • Working with others
      • Vegan Recipes
      • Treading Lightly
      • Carnaby's Cockatoo Café
    • ETHICAL TRAINING >
      • Evidence-based training
      • Evolution friendly horse management
      • DIY property management
  • SERVICES
    • Horse Training
    • Lessons & Clinics
  • CONTACT
  • Store

Why I write

6/12/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
I write because without writing, living is like scrubbing newly sunburned skin. It’s too much. Writing is what you do with the milk soft smell of babies, a soprano voice and violins, and the first perfect plum of the season. It’s what you do when feelings and other people’s stories and your own stories get stacked one upon the other, higher and higher, until one day you look up and you can’t see the sun anymore. I write because writing turns everything into words. And words bring in the light.
 
I write because stories are like splinters – they’re better out than in. Some parts of the story of my first novel Seeing the Elephant came to me when I was a year into a PhD about the Vietnam War.  I was way out of my depth… studying, parenting, running a business and almost definitely drowning, not waving.


Read More
0 Comments

    Archives

    January 2017
    December 2016
    May 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015

    Categories

    All
    Business
    Community
    Marketing
    Travel
    Writing

    RSS Feed

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture