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For Me, Its been a ‘Pretty Balanced’ Interfitting Year
When truly we write blog posts from the heart, the year is not planned out, rather conditional on events, things that pique our interests, whatever we consider our favorite themes, and whatever ‘zone’ or frame of mind in which we find ourselves at any one particular moment, the year evolves.
My favorite writing themes are, philosophical themes; philosophically historical themes; spirituality; and sociopolitical & economic themes. Whenever I am in need of some rest from these somewhat more demanding themes on which I write, I deliberately seek out inspiration for a poem or two here and there.
Every meaningful sociopolitical theme necessarily is an economic theme, but one that involves, not one person, but all of society.
Poetry majorly is about inspiration. Literary writing majorly is about discipline and skill. The reason the two are evaluated as separate genres of writing.
I commenced writing on Medium this year with a post reminding my readers that whereas names can change, descriptions tend to remain the same. For illustration, whenever a woman drops her maiden name for her husband’s…