Ep.38: Field Notes - Observations, Interpretations, and Reflections of a Life Lived Wholeheartedly

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What you might not know is that when Meg is not behind the mic for The Spark Podcast, she’s writing. Surveyor of life, midwife of stories - the truest thing Meg knows about herself is that she’s a writer. In May of 2022, she started a personal newsletter called Field Notes where she shares her lyrical essays, poems, and personal anecdotes.

With Field Notes, she’s created a community of “messy, complicated, brave, courageous, vulnerable, adventurous, kind, wholehearted, free-spirited, perfectly imperfect, follow-your-gut, and lead-with-your-heart kind of people,” as she likes to put it.

Her most recent piece, “Keys” - a personal essay about her best friend-breakup, caught the attention of many with a deep resonation around the story she shares and her redefinition of friendship.

It also prompted this conversation, where Amy dives deep into conversation with Meg not only about Field Notes and her writing, but about creativity as a whole, what it means to be vulnerable, the difference between vulnerability and oversharing.

And more.

This conversation is one of Meg and Amy’s most favorite conversations to date.

Read “Keys” and the rest of Meg’s Field Notes, and join her community at megdowaliby.substack.com.

也许你不知道的是，当 Meg 卸掉The Spark Podcast火花电台的工作后，她在写作。作为生活的勘测者，故事的助产士，Meg清楚地知道，她其实是一位作家。在 2022 年 5 月，她开始了一份名为《田野笔记Field Notes》的电子报。Meg在其中分享她的抒情散文、诗歌和个人趣闻。

通过《田野笔记Field Notes》，她打造了一个社群。正如她所说，这是一个“混乱、复杂、勇敢、坚韧、脆弱、冒险、善良、真实、自由、完美、随心而行的人”的社群。

她最近的一篇作品，《钥匙Keys》 是一篇关于她与最好的朋友分手的个人散文。这篇文章引起了许多人的关注。读者深刻地共鸣了Meg在随着年岁的增长而发生的对友情的不断重新定义。

这也引发了这次对话。Amy 与 Meg 进行了深入的交流。谈话间不仅涉及到《田野笔记Field Notes 和她的写作，还包括创造力的概念，脆弱的意味，以及表现脆弱与过度分享之间的区别。

这次对话是 Meg 和 Amy 迄今为止最喜欢的对话之一。

阅读《钥匙Keys》和 Meg 的其他《田野笔记Field Notes》，并加入她的社群，网址为 megdowaliby.substack.com。

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