Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The 2009 Heroes series

Toward the end of 2009 I decided to write about 4 people whose creative output and/or personal stories have had a big impact on my life. Writing about my "heroes" was part of the meditation I have been been doing on my life as I turn 3-0. Whee, 30! An age is really just a number as far as I'm concerned (especially if one is happy with one's life), but it is an opportunity to reflect on the choices I made in the first part of my adulthood and how my values have developed. I'm at the point in life where I know I don't have endless time, though I still have a lot of time, and I've made some important decisions, deliberately or by default, that can't be changed. So I feel the need to take some time to reflect on that, not in an evaluative way, to label things bad or good, but just to understand myself and what has influenced me. The people I wrote about in these entries have been huge influences.

Clarissa Estes

Seamus Heaney

Hild of Whitby

Moya Brennan

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