I'm in the home stretch of writing my thesis for Seminary (for those of you who play close attention, I got an extension and it is now due this Saturday. Long story.) on Flannery O'Connor's Theology of Disability. I've learned a lot about theology, disability, and O'Connor, but the unexpected blessing of the past three months of research has been reading O'Connor's collected letters in The Habit of Being.
One example for today:
"I never completely forget myself except when I am writing
and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing."
When do you completely forget yourself?
When are you completely yourself?
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I think you know that God wants you to write when you feel like that. When I'm writing I go into a wonderful sort of trance, even if it's just for a few lines.
I hope you'll produce some articles based on your thesis. The theology of disability sounds fascinating.
Your thesis sounds fascinating. Are you considering publishing it?
i think i am mostly myself somehow when I am in front of a room full of people with a microphone at a rehearsal dinner, making a speech about someone I love. writing a little - when I am out in the audience, listening to it all come together, or burning the midnight oil, when it finally all comes clear and needs to be completed in one fell swoop. and somehow, even though it is elitist and expensive, and so completely frivolous something about the connection with my brothers and dad and the grandfather I never met, I am completely myself on skis. what a question!
Thanks so much for sharing everyone!
And I do hope I'll get my thesis published in some form, even if only in pieces on this blog!
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