Writing I Love — Robert Frost

Today two simple shares from some writing I love, from the poet Robert Frost.

I’ve written many posts here on this site around “Writing I Love”. Why do I do that on a site about #OpenLeadership.

Simple. Leadership starts with “Self-Leadership”.

Beauty, whether in nature, poetry, art, movies, special moments of connection. All moments of beauty have the opportunity to connect us more deeply to who we are, and to bring awareness to that is to create ever greater opportunity to lead ourselves and so to lead others, from our children and other family members on up to whoever we lead in our work.

So, I’ll share my own thoughts from two pieces by Robert Frost today.

What writing moves you?

My first of two Robert Frost stories today.

A few days ago I wrote a post on the powerful connection between vulnerability and self-responsibility, called “It’s OK to not be OK”.

In this, I told a story of how I’d replied to a powerful tweet about mental health from Ruth Davidson. I had replied instinctively to thank her for her leadership with that tweet on mental health.

Perhaps that instinctive feeling to respond was amplified by the way she started her tweet, which read: