Sitting in front of a blank page reveals that the most frustrating secrets can be the things that we simply have not been able to access within ourselves—the gifts that we have not yet figured out how to give the world.
What helps you to access the creativity that lies dormant within you?
Superheroes and super villains lurk within seemingly ordinary people, only revealed when occasion demands that they emerge from the Batcave or transform in a phone booth.
What superhero (or villain) would you choose as your secret identity?
The key is in the lock, but hasn’t been turned in years—maybe decades.
Is your inclination to turn the key and see what has been hidden, or would you rather trust that there is good reason to leave the secret locked away?
“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
―Rainer Maria Rilke
How would you describe those who you want to be with?
Nuns have traditionally lived in cloisters—places that are set apart from the world, protected into a kind of peacefulness that is rare in the secular world.
What do you cloister—keep separate and secret from the daily world so that it is protected?
