6/11/2023 0 Comments Slide by garrett leigh![]() ![]() The accountant may discover that he can make enough money to support his family taking pictures the schoolteacher may become enough of an expert on grave rubbings to go on the lecture circuit. Sometimes the hobby can become a full-time job. In civilized society we have an unspoken agreement to call our obsessions “hobbies.” ![]() The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession. ![]() The school-teacher may do gravestone rubbings in charcoal. The accountant may also be a photographer. All of us seem to have a built-in obligation to sift through the sludge that gets caught in our respective mind-filters, and what we find there usually develops into some sort of sideline. What catches in yours may pass through mine, no sweat. What catches in my filter may run right through yours. All of us seem to come equipped with filters on the floors of our minds, and all the filters have differing sizes and meshes. Writing is a catch-as-catch-can sort of occupation. I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that I have a choice? “Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects? ![]()
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