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Don’t be afraid to get dirty — Newsletter #30
Don’t be afraid to get dirty
How often do you let yourself get dirty? Jump in a puddle? Finger paint? Play in the mud with your kids? Try something new you might not be strong at?
When I was younger, I used to shy away from things I was bad at.
I quit dance, tennis, and skiing for precisely this reason, and yes — the irony is not lost on me for as I now tell my children — the only way to get better is to practice, not quit. But I digress!
A few weeks ago, a fellow writer on the platform, invited me to participate in a prompt — utilizing a new poetic form I had never heard of; the etheree, in which each line grows in syllables from 1–10, or inversely from 10–1. No more rules after that — the rest is up to the poet.
I like a good challenge these days. I am no longer the girl who quits what she’s bad at, but rather today I invite challenge and discomfort as opportunities for growth.
So I dove in and wrote my first etheree. It was a little messy and to be honest not my favorite poem ever, but it was a…
