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Julia Fehrenbacher's avatar

PS: And one more thing, because it’s been a while since I’ve said it - I appreciate you so much.

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Julia Fehrenbacher's avatar

Dear Thomas, first, thank you so much for sharing. “Like a little lad reconsidering a high dive…scurried back down the ladder” (what a vivid, perfect image). Ah, how important this feels that you listened - and such a foundational piece of writing practice (the listening). And the hinting at, the freewheeling (I love the word freewheeling to describe this free writing). Just - thank

you. 🙏

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I did the exercise just now. I got to the edge of trauma, and like a little lad reconsidering a high dive from a diving board, scurried back down the ladder. "We should be as clear," Marianne Moore tells us, "as our natural reticence allows us to be." But I did hint at what I couldn't say, and I feel the time I spent writing (freewheeling, vivid, mostly unselfconscious) had value.

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