{"id":6118,"date":"2019-05-24T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T19:41:52","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6118","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>originally posted <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 14, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAna\u00efs Nin once said: \u2018We write to taste life twice.\u2019\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 I think we write to taste life twice, and we paint and dance and sing and compose and do all art to \u2018taste life twice.\u2019\u00a0 This opportunity to taste life twice is an invitation to go deeper, to miss nothing, to tell others, to experience the joy a second time in the telling and in handing on the depths and mystery\u00a0 of life.\u00a0 When we behold, we become so struck by what is that we want to share.\u00a0 We call that sharing \u2018art.\u2019\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 We tap into the work of the Creator whose power is \u2018unceasingly glowing and burning with all the Divine wealth, all the Divine sweetness, all the Divine bliss.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 (He\u2019s quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meister_Eckhart\">Eckhart<\/a>) Matthew Fox, <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creativity<\/a> p77<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I realize that a lot of my early writing was like a message to my future self so that I could taste the real depth of my life, so that I would have a chance to experience something I had dissociated the first time around. \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Colonial Dames&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Selective Amnesia&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>originally posted July 14, 2012 \u201cAna\u00efs Nin once said: \u2018We write to taste life twice.\u2019\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 I think we write to taste life twice, and we paint and dance and sing and compose and do all art to \u2018taste &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}