Comments on: How We Spend Our Days: Thomas Larson https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/ Catching Days Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Darrelyn Saloom https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/#comment-4463 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:27:29 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=12736#comment-4463 Brilliant and thought-provoking piece, Tom. I like the idea of spending time every day on my weaknesses. And this I intend to practice: “Something I learned from Jarrett is to shut my eyes or look away from the screen and compose lines as fast as I can, in essence, improvising or letting my hands and not my mind/eyes do the creating.”

]]> By: writersideup https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/#comment-4462 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:27:26 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=12736#comment-4462 In reply to Thomas Larson.

All I know is I’m lucky if I can concentrate on writing, period! lol This is all very interesting 🙂

]]> By: Thomas Larson https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/#comment-4461 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:51:11 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=12736#comment-4461 Inherent in the idea of weakness is that we can’t see it, that with strengths we tend to do them to the exclusion or blinding of other features we should attend to. I agree: trying to see the unseen can be crazy-making. Is this what happened to Salinger? The film about him makes a case that he was too enraptured by his difficulties; he may have worked so hard on his weaknesses, forever making a citadel of them, that not publishing anything more became a strength. TL

]]> By: richardstuartgilbert https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/#comment-4460 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:30:30 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=12736#comment-4460 Love this, Tom. Of course one’s challenge is to know one’s weakness! And to pinpoint a/the true weakness, which isn’t necessarily what you’ve been criticized for—but may be. This could drive a guy crazy . . .

]]> By: writersideup https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/#comment-4459 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:43:57 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=12736#comment-4459 I find that shutting my eyes allows my imagination to soar more freely and clearly, generally speaking. It’s why I love (and it seems this has come up several times in the past week!) the hypnopompic state. When I’m in that place, awakening–but not really ready to be “up”–if I choose to, I can use that state of consciousness to direct my semi-dream state into a creative place. Anyway, that came to mind after reading this eloquent piece 🙂

]]> By: Interior with Book | sub rosa https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2013/10/how-we-spend-our-days-thomas-larson/#comment-4458 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 22:19:07 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=12736#comment-4458 […] have read several blog-posts on the American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) lately. At Catching Days Thomas Larson writes very well about him in a post on […]

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