[NaNoWriMo] Two Days and Counting

From The Desk of Liz Ensley:

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist

(384 BC - 322 BC)

This is an excellent maxim to keep in mind for National Novel Writing Month. I think The Waking by Theodore Roethke is also good to keep in mind.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.