“LEARN TO BE REVERENT.”
Undated, 2022
“Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense.”
“In order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.” Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird, pg. 92
Reverent: Feeling or showing deep and solemn respect.
As I push myself away from writing in flowery speech and pretty words, I am more grounded. I think seeing what’s in front of you is very difficult. Because it requires seeing past what’s in front of you.
This is what it means to be present.
I think this is what Lamott means by “learn to be reverent.”
How can you truly see something, without giving it the respect of observance?
