To my friends who subscribe in a reader or by email: I edited that last post to add a postscript pretty much immediately after publishing, and I wanted to post it again here so you'd catch it, too.
**edited to add** After a long conversation about this very topic with a musician/writer friend tonight, I feel compelled to clarify that I absolutely see the beauty in each individual taking away something different from a piece of writing or art. That's how it should be. This post is about me - checking my own intentions when I write. Like my friend and I discussed, it's hard sometimes to write your truth or your heart and be misunderstood for being unclear or too 'cryptic', and it can be easier - but less satisfying - to write to please other people, to write what you think people want to read. This was me working that out.
To be clear, any tone of frustration that rings through is with myself and my internal tug of war, and is no way directed at anyone reading what I write - here, or elsewhere.
(closing comments here, they're open on the last post.)
