We need a writer’s forum that meets. shares, and faces the issues of the day not personally but maybe with a wide angle lens. I think of Charles Dickens the English writer and social critic. We don’t seem to have writers that face the social problems as he did so well. Perhaps our social-political divide is the consequence of this lack.
Maybe I’m wrong, but there’s no lack of seemingly intractable problems that writers are skimming around for one reason or another. Maybe we do have that will, but it’s getting buried with all the junk stuff. We need writers with courage to show the public and confront Hollywood to stop feeding us mush.
A LIMINAL SPACE
Feeling this need
to let go of these echoes
from the past,
those metaphors,
symbols, and sureties
that served my life
and others around me.
This space of unsettledness
where Spirit calls,
where the future calls
with yet to be created
language, relationships,
and creativity.
Richard Evan MacKay