12.06.2025 (1): A Coarsening
Jun. 12th, 2025 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshowerdandelionI really don't like what I've become this past few weeks: tired, cranky, ungenerous with my students and everyone else. Snappish. I'm aware that this is because of the work that's been dumped on me, and the careless, heartless manner of dumping, but I still don't like it. I'm tired all the time. My mind moves in tired ways. I wonder if this is the thing that grinds people down.
In Runaway, specifically in Chance, Munro's character Juliet writes about her love of the Classics, and once that love's put down - in her case, because she took a chance - you might not pick it back up. The thing that was your bright treasure. I do not intend to put down my books, or writing, but I really, really feel the people who've been forced to.
I think to put those two things down would completely erode my humanity, at least as it stands now.
In Runaway, specifically in Chance, Munro's character Juliet writes about her love of the Classics, and once that love's put down - in her case, because she took a chance - you might not pick it back up. The thing that was your bright treasure. I do not intend to put down my books, or writing, but I really, really feel the people who've been forced to.
I think to put those two things down would completely erode my humanity, at least as it stands now.
