relevant similarities

I wrote the Post "the above line... "about the title of this blog around the same time my older brother Brandon wrote the following post on his blog dear autumn--or at least, it was right after I posted mine that I encountered his, half way around the world. He said in greater brevity, and perhaps accuracy, largely what I was getting at, without ever having read mine or us talking about the matter. I thought the timing and context of each of our lives as relevant to the other was certainly a noteworthy example of what we were both saying. Enjoy.

writing (and, i believe, all art) is the translation of experience (broadly defined) from one form into another. in order to write you first have to understand how you understand. then you have to decide how to translate what you understand and what to translate it into. but you must also be aware that whatever you have translated you have done only for yourself, and if anyone else seems to connect with it, it is very lucky. for this reason everything i have ever written has been something I've wanted very badly to read. - Brandon Thompson