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Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

I do for myself exactly what ...

I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that you take the action, and THEN the insight follows - I do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that I am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. And that is what Home looks like for me now.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

The stuff I write about is pr...

The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

I do not understand how deepl...

I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

I'm very successful, but ther...

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Writing can be a pretty despe...

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

I find most famous Christians...

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Reading poetry and reading th...

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

My father really taught me th...

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

So I was doing well academica...

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Having a child as a single mo...

Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of so much stuff that didn't really matter in the scheme of things-like throwing stuff out of an airplane that kept me flying too low. What was left was essential, i.e. not a lot of extraneous stuff that had kept me busy and people-pleasing. I just didn't have the luxury of wasting my life force on so much stupidity and distraction. That made me strong.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

I spend most of my time alone...

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Over and over I feel as if my...

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

My experience as a writer is ...

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Drugs took me to places; they...

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a clich?, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

When hope is not pinned wrigg...

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

The writer is a person who is...

The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to take a few notes. You’re outside, but you can see things up close through your binoculars. Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

If I have a huge audience, I'...

If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Sam said to me the other day,...

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

Now, if you ask me, what’s go...

Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov
Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

We are going to die, as is ev...

We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and be fully alive to each other and nature and magic and wonder and Life with a capital L? When will we stop hitting the snooze button? And then, how alive are we willing to be?

Aleksandr Iv. Blinov

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