target practice

For reasons currently mostly unclear to me, last week I searched my brain to rename this newsletter, and emerged “target practice”. I had thought about an 8-year-old friend who watched the videos of Lola at her wake, how he asked, “anyways, how did she get good at piano?” And how I answered, “well, she started playing when she was 3, and then never stopped practising.” I had also thought about precision and plainness, and how I wanted—or needed—this space to be a practice of that. 

I know nothing about the world of shooting for sport or for occupation, but this term comes to me defining my need to practise precision and dwell less in poetic ambiguity, which sometimes keeps me from finding the clarity in the depth of understanding that I need and could find in an exercise as plain as writing.

I might change it, at some point, but for now, it seems to fit.