“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious...
When you’re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.”
- Anne Lamott
Attentivism: Can a pandemic bring about a new “ism”?
In America, we learn about rugged individualism from a very early age. It isn’t something conscious, we just know at a cellular level that we are to think about ourselves first. We are taught to be resourceful, we learn to be self-reliant and we compete fiercely to get ahead.