📚💬📝 “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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📚💬📝 “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow of ideas in my mind.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
📚💬📝 “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
📚💬📝 “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be well.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
📚💬📝 “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present to the one who writes.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 remaining days: 1 holiday, 1 school break, 3 home sick, 2 dentist appointments mid-day, 1 hurricane flooding cancellation. This has made it hard to establish a fall workflow.
Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr 📚
An uplifting and compelling read. Herr documents her daughter’s successful climbing of the 48 NH mountains taller than 4000 ft. Highly recommend.
🔖 Read Howl’s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic
I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I think) but Howl is actually a post-ac wizard whose family is v. disappointed he isn’t doing more with his PhD. This delights me. 📚🍿