{"id":4386,"date":"2012-01-19T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2012-01-19T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:00:32","slug":"we-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2012\/01\/19\/we-write\/","title":{"rendered":"we write&#8230;(and I call it breathing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We write to heighten our own awareness of life.<\/p>\n<p>We write to lure and enchant and console others.<\/p>\n<p>We write to serenade our lovers.<\/p>\n<p>We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.<\/p>\n<p>We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal.<\/p>\n<p>We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it.<\/p>\n<p>We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely.<\/p>\n<p>We write as the birds sing, as the primitives dance their rituals.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don&#8217;t write, because our culture has no use for it.<\/p>\n<p>When I don&#8217;t write, I feel my world shrinking. 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