Courage Ongoing, Tone, Flourishing, Acknowledging

— I’ve shared this quotation by Adam Zagajewski before from his book Eternal Enemies, and don’t we all have a few of those by now? “hey, friends, courage,life is beautiful”— I wrote Courage, life is beautiful, on a mirror in red lipstick, thinking I’d said something original before rummaging around in my memory banks for the AZ reference. The trouble with often quoting a line by someone else, it starts to feel like your own. I’d like to think I had his blessing for the use here. He’d probably write a dry poem about the obscure Canadian writer quoting his work in lipstick. — A book I’ve been reading and loving for a while now is Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno. They also wrote Opacities which has turned into one of my most dogeared books. TBH the idea of a collaborative work almost kept me away but this thinking together thing in this case is actually magic. And tone. The subject of tone just seems to me right now to be so important in writers defending writing. I mean, those…