Toni Morrison is one of my favorite novelists and in a recent article I learned that she published her most famous book, Beloved, at the age of 54. But in order to write that book she had to first close a chapter of her life working as a book editor.
Reflecting on how she felt after her last day at that job she wrote, “I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty. Enter ‘Beloved.’”
I love the idea of a “rogue anticipation with certainty.” Have you ever felt that way? Is there a chapter in your life that you need to close to have your own “Beloved” enter your life?
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