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I Am That Chrysalis
March 4, 2011, a little before 5:00 am, I am sitting in my living room in Montreal, with fountain pen in hand and a writing pad in my lap, ready to start a conversation with myself before my husband wakes … Continue reading
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Tagged book, butterfly, Canada, caterpillar, chrysalis, civil war, coffee, conversation, country, crawl, dictionary, dignity, dreams, Dubai, family, fountain pen, freedom, home, husband, immigrant, ink, job, Kafka, larva, Lebanon, lexicon, Middle East, Montblanc, Montreal, muse, newspaper, Oxford, pens, pupa, Reader's Digest, universal, war, Webster's, writer
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Which side of the Atlantic do I belong to?
Dorothea Brande in her Becoming A Writer writes; “It is not by weighing, balancing, trimming, expanding with conscious intention, that an excellent piece of art is born. It takes its shape and has its origin outside the region of conscious … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic, Becoming a Writer, Beirut, belong, Canada, Canadian, childhood, citizen, conscious, Dorothea Brande, Dubai, Emirates, Emirati, immigrant, individual, Lebanese, Lebanon, literature, memories, money, publication, Ray Bradbury, socioeconomic, unconscious, Universe, writer, Zen in The Art of Writing
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