{"id":59290,"date":"2019-02-16T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=59290"},"modified":"2019-02-16T06:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:54:26","slug":"151-het-verhaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/151-het-verhaal\/","title":{"rendered":"151. het verhaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Als zij het verhaal zou schrijven, zou ze een ander verhaal vertellen. Point of view and feeling shape reality, and her point of view is hers, as is her feeling. Mary Karr. Ik weet niet hoe zij zich voelde. Als iets me spijt, dan dat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi Irma, I had a great poetry teacher in college who always said the best way to learn to write poetry was to read as much poetry as you can. And the same is true for what you say. When I set out to write a memoir I started reading all the memoirs I could find, and ended up discovering a lot of good writers \u2014 Nick Flynn, Mary Karr, Bevery Donofrio, et al. So you\u2019re on the right track. You might even add memoirs to your list, although as I\u2019ve said, they are not the same as journaling. But the best ones show a certain fearlessness about revealing personal weaknesses and anxieties. I recently read a book by a Tibetan lama named Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (a name that\u2019s harder to pronounce than mine!), who talked about the enormous anxiety he experienced as a child when his father, also a renowned lama, began teaching him meditation. That\u2019s quite a revelation for a spiritual teacher, the kind of person we tend to think of as having all the answers. But his discussion of anxiety was what drew me to him. One memoirist I heard at a writer\u2019s conference said that if writing about yourself isn\u2019t at least somewhat painful you\u2019re probably not doing it right. <!--- In any event, if you\u2019d care to share your blog address you might pick up some new readers. ---> <small>\u2013 Peter Occhiogrosso, Sacred Journaling<\/small> <!--- 20 januari 2017 ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Peter, I'm from Amsterdam.\n\nThe online Sacred Contracts-class (Caroline Myss) pointed me towards Sacred Journaling.\n\nI blog daily (writing as praxis) but this is getting more and more difficult lately, because of, well, life happens when you grow older :-) The public part of blogging, dealing with heavy stuff when there's other people involved is bothering me, yet at the same time, this is exactly what I want to write about, explore, and the main reason why I write, actually. \n\nI read a lot of diaries, personal essays, common place books, that kind of stuff, to see how others deal with that Strange Thing Called Life. I'm overblown by the abundance of all, in a good way. So much to read, enjoy, write. This feeling makes going to work more and more difficult each day.\n\nI'm attracted to the dream-part of the course, since I have difficulty remembering dreams.\n\nThank you all for sharing your personal stories, the 'why you're here'. I enjoyed reading them.\n\nIrma ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Als zij het verhaal zou schrijven, zou ze een ander verhaal vertellen. Point of view and feeling shape reality, and her point of view is hers, as is her feeling. Mary Karr. Ik weet niet hoe zij zich voelde. Als iets me spijt, dan dat. Hi Irma, I had a great poetry teacher in college<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/151-het-verhaal\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,1714],"tags":[1605,1606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59296,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions\/59296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}