Tug O' War

I am the rope.

I am pulling 

One end 

And the other.

I offer the action

And the reaction.

Who knew Newton's

Third Law of Motion 

Is at play in line editing?

As I cross out a word here

Change a word there

Go back and add the word back in

And change another back.

Still, some of the edits stick.

Creating Space: Three Months of Showing Up for What's Showing Up is a daily writing practice. Turns out that a lot of this writing explores the landscape of grief. My mother died shortly before I began this writing, and this is what I'm thinking about most of the time these days.

Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.