#gettingbacktowriting

I heard this line from IssaRae's YouTube series "First" and was so taken by it, I had to stop and write it down.

"...I tell my students all the time that you have three consciousness. You have your head which is what you think. You have your heart which is what you feel. And you have your deep, which is what you intuitively know. Your deep is always truthful and it's always honest because it's not affected by logic or emotion. So write from your deep."

 I find myself writing down a lot of things lately. Since I was a kid, I have always had a diary, a journal, some type of outlet that would just allow me to write and BE. When I see some of those literary materials now, I cringe at what I used to say because it just shows me who I once was, searching for who I wanted to be. Today, writing is like therapy for me. I write to take my mind off of the present and create my own realities. I write to reflect on the things that made me stop and wonder or bothered me that day. Sometimes I write just to read my own thoughts. But, writing more than anything makes me aware of my voice. The voice I don't always use because I am/was afraid the words in my head won't sound right when I say them out loud. My words give me more vision and clarity than anything I could dream or try to build with my hands.