An Accomplished Woman - a role model - a doer! Not just a thinker, not just a creative, but a DOER.
You have inspired and amazed me since your first freewrite here at Hive.
Learning a new language and mastering a musical instrument is challenging enough.
Studying, memorizing, doing homework, passing tests: you've kept your brain alive and well!
after one year of grueling studies, I have earned the right and the confidence to call myself a homeopath
Wow
CONGRATULATIONS!!
You also recognize that we never stop learning. Even the "masters" know this. Famous musicians continue to take voice lessons or cello lessons. They know they are never done learning. Anyone who imagines s/he's reached the top is resting on laurels.
Willa Cather has a quote about that - of course I can't find it now! But I came across some other gems from her:
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
source: - Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
source: - Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”
For the lady of the lake house:
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
source: - Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.31
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound. --Willa Cather
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
Oh that's all gorgeous!
haha that must be why I spend so much time doing next to nothing! It helps me perfect all the other stuff that require my all!
My doing next to nothing time has been reduced though. I blog much less now. Once I started the homeopathy academy, I had no time at all to post - all I could manage was upvoting and a comment now and then.
If it hadn't been for your support back then, and that of a few other freewriters, I would have left this space long ago.