Adding Value, Private and Public

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I was thinking about private and public spaces today. I wrote not long ago that we need to be careful about processing our raw emotions in public, where we can trigger others and contribute to the escalation of general public mayhem. And this new collections adventure felt like blurring the boundaries between the private and the public. Am I adding any value, or just creating more noise?

What I realised is that it's not a binary. There's a process in between raw reactions and thoughtful responses. If my blog posts are the thoughtful responses, and my morning pages are the private reactions, then what I'm doing with the garden is doing my composting in public. It's not for the faint of heart to see how the sausage is made. Maybe I'm making a big mistake in exposing the process. It makes the books less magical if anyone can see how my thought process led me to them. But this feels right, so I'm doing this for now.