#ursulaleguin — Public Fediverse posts

New life update #blog post!!

I'm in a transitional period in my life, moving from #Germany to #Spain, and I wanted to express more deeply what the immigration experience means for me. As well as what home means.

I've structured my post to mirror #Virgil's #Aeneid, taking inspiration also from #UrsulaLeGuin's #TheDispossed and #Dante's #inferno.

The journey I want to talk about involves geographical displacement, but the real distance travelled takes place inside.

https://sofiabelen.github.io/blog/my-journey-home-is-to-a-place-ive-never-been/

A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul