Taking praise: Take it. Take it. TAKE IT.

by Ksenia Anske

Something new is happening in my life. I must tell you, it's getting weirder and stranger and more beautiful in a bizarre kind of way. I have to pinch myself, to make sure I'm not macerating or pullulating or gemmating or...can you tell I read too much Stanisław Lem lately? Yeah, all this amorphous gluttonous Solaris vocabulary has stuck in my mind, and here I have derailed from the main topic of this important blog post.

PRAISE.

How to take it? And why am I blogging about it? And why is it important?

On writing, reading, and THE ART OF ASKING

by Ksenia Anske

I have held a heart in my hand for a couple days. A real beating heart. Bleeding, too. I held it a couple days in a row. I was reading THE ART OF ASKING by Amanda Palmer, and I was bleeding with her. I couldn't believe that there was someone out there who got my shit. And I mean, really got it. It was one of those rare moments you experience when you read a book and you want the author to be your best friend. No, better. You actually think the author is your best friend already. You think alike. You have the same ideas. The same feels. The same rhythm of a heartbeat.

Isn't this why we write?

We write to connect our hearts. Isn't it true?