Until today I never realised that the word 'dreck' has Yiddish origins. Now I do, courtesy of a particularly fine opinion piece by Michael Rosen about the value of writing. I could never quite figure out as a young teacher in the late 1970s how it was that his poetry somehow worked with all kids, but it did. And I suspect his remedy for 'the bothers' will work for lots of very ordinary people, kids included.
I intend to try it for myself - as an specific addition to my discovery in middle-age that writing stuff down - any stuff, any time, any how - is good for the soul.
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