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Inside the Rabbit Hole: Two June 19, 2016

The need to live in that other world makes for odd people, I know.

To be able to hear that voice requires living in that other world…

Not just visiting it here and there.

You’re never fully present in the day-world—that place where jobs and responsibilities and bills and people define the very deadness…

I know that both from the experience of working full-time while writing full-time as much as from having lost it all (voice, other world, heart) because of working full-time.

I know it is a place you have to go to—a self inside you that must be found.

And I know the cost of losing that self.

You have to find it again.

Or forget writing.

©2005 Valerie Isobel Freer. Adapted from unpublished papers; email to private correspondent. Images ©2008 Isobel Freer.