I’m renewing my commitment to write short posts, posts that can be read in the “moment.” Reading exploring the mystery is to help you experience your humanness and know you are not alone.
When a post is trying to explore more than a moment’s worth of material, I will end it. There will be weeks (like last week) when you will feel the type of frustration I used to experience between episodes of the old fashioned TV soap operas.
So what are cotton wool moments? My guess is you have felt something akin to them. Last February I was in a cotton wool moment while waiting for surgery.
Dani Shapiro* explains there are days when she is trapped in what Virginia Woolf called cotton wool. She describes this as a dazed, unfocused state in which the hours collapse, one flattening into the next.
Have you ever had moments like this? Please share your cotton wool moments with me and our community of explorers! And I’d love to know how short posts work for you.
Thanks for exploring the mystery – Nicky Mendenhall
* Dani Shapiro, page 60 of Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (2013)