Haiku poet Robert Hirschfield praises An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life and offers snippets from an interview with me in a piece just published online in Beshara, a UK magazine devoted to “Unity in the Contemporary World.”
Hirschfield begins with a quote from the book: “Solitude doesn’t give me meaning so much as help me see where my life has meaning and where it doesn’t.” Then he writes: “I go over that line maybe three or four times, as if afraid it may otherwise disappear for good.”
He credits me with “a knack…of getting at what is most essential and quietly moving on” before quoting these lines of mine from our interview:
“It seems obvious to me that in our very busy, very noisy world, just giving yourself a break from that would have to be beneficial. Beyond that, to live a life is to experience the unknown. I think solitude allows you to exist in that unknowing state, to realize a true vision of who you are and what it means to be alive.”
The interview touches on the relationship of solitude to several subjects, including nature, travel, and loneliness.
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