Two weeks ago, I tried to write a poem that incorporated Hildegarde of Bingen, but I felt like I was just doing the same thing that I've done before, using the life of a medieval mystic (usually female) to contrast to the lives we're living now.
Tuesday morning, I came at the poem from a completely different angle: what can a medieval mystic teach us about how to live during a time of pandemic? From cloistering to robes to ordering the day--if I lived a different life, a freelance writer kind of life, I'd write it up as an article and hope that I'd get my big break.
Maybe I'd even write a self-help book--but would it get published before there was a vaccine? If there was a vaccine, would there be a need for such a book?
And now I'm thinking of my unpublished book length memoir project, a project which probably reads very differently now. I haven't been working on getting it published. so I'm not broken hearted that it probably won't be published in our current time.
So many projects, so little time--what advice would Hildegarde give me?
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