Podcasts! Glennon Doyle’s podcast to be specific, We Can Do Hard Things. Maybe I need to change the name of the blog to For the Love of – blank. I have a feeling this is not going to be the only non-cycling-related post I do.
This is not an exact transcript of what Glennon said, but it is close. I typed as I listened so I didn’t catch every word.
I have written a few difficult & personal posts here since the accident and have been unsure about sharing my *art* with all of you. I am not sure it is art, but more importantly, it is my Truth. It turns out it I am not responsible for how every single reader handles my truth. Neither are you with your art and truth. Freeing, isn’t it!
“What is crucial is that art is just about finding a place to tell the truth. About your life, as close to the truth as you can get, to be free – to let that real self free.
There is this crucial moment where you have to only be responsible for that and when you leave the field or … put it [art] out into the world or let other people read it, understand that nobody will see it as clearly as you said it.
Everyone’s conditioning will come into it and that is not your responsibility. It is not our responsibility to follow our art around and be a lawyer for it, be a defender of it…..
Once you step off the field your job is done. You’re responsible for telling the truth and in no way responsible for how the world handles your truth or reacts to your truth.”
Glennon Doyle/we can do hard things podcast/Writing & Art