This Year’s Theme: Depth

Depth is both a concrete noun—something we can measure like the depth of the lake from the surface to the bottom—and an abstract noun—something we can’t measure like the quality of being profound.

Depth takes time and distance. Depth isn’t forced or rushed. Depth is quiet and still, heavy with pressure and bio-electric. So I’m taking my time, taking small steps, and simplifying.

For years I’ve been trying to make Experience Writing not only a great resource, but also fun for me to write. Today, I realized that instead of making it a place of work, I want it to be a place to celebrate discovery. So this year, I will only be posting as a reward to myself for my hard work. In other words, every post will be a celebration of reaching a new depth of some kind.

I’ll be working with two main books to help me dig deeper:

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1. My sister-in-law gave me an incredibly thoughtful gift for Christmas: Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur.
2. I bought How to Write Poetry: A Guided Journal with Prompts by Christopher Salerno & Kelsea Habecker last year, but didn’t use it at all. This year, I plan to use one exercise each day in my morning hand-written journal pages. In its resources section “A Poetry Library” I found Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, which I bought, and am reading.

What do you think of when you think of depth? How can you write deeper? How can you deepen your thinking?