As a voracious reader I believe I have made it blatantly clear that I appreciate the written word is all it's splendor and glory. There is nothing I enjoy more than a good book, a good dear book that, I will by the time I read it in it's entirety, become good friends with. Now there are two quotes that I believe epitomize what a good book or story is all about.....
"Literature duplicates the experience of living in such a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget that you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up, in bed til dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack simply to find out what happens to some people who---you know perfectly well--are made up."
-Barbara Kingsolver-
"Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, that has improved on a good story that begins, "Once upon a time......."
-William J. Bennett-
And it is my deep love affair with books that has fed my insatiable hunger for words all these wonderful years of my life here on this fine Earth. There is something so fulfilling about writing. It's like an extension of my soul. Like when I sit down to write there is no complication, no hesitation or confusion. The words pour fourth from my fingertips like there has always been a purpose for them. My respect for the written word and all the power that it possesses I believe is what fuels my facility and ease with words and weaving them together to create what my thoughts and spirit have conjured and now desire to express. And in doing so there is a sensation comparable to my entire soul being ignited from the inside out..
I love running in the heat of Texas summers .....when the sun is at it's most cantankerous stage....like noonish...running long and running hard and then finding the oasis that is a water fountain or a water bottle ....there is a moment when you take your first sip that it feels as though you can feel the water travel from your mouth to your stomach and it cools your entire body. When I write it's water for my soul cooling every crevice of my being and I can feel it's yumminess from my head to my toes. There is no greater sense of accomplishment or greater compliment for that matter than when someone says to me that they are moved, touched, or impacted in any way by my compilation of words. It makes me feel connected to so many people, my ability to express myself in the written form. And here are just a few words about words;
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
-Jorge Luis Borges-
"It is in the margins that poems are found."
-Osip Mandelstam-
"We stayed at home to write,
to consolidate our outstretched selves."
-Sylvia Plath-
"Writing is busy idleness."
-Goethe-
"Nulla dies sinea linea"
-Plinius-
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power
as a word. Sometimes I write one and I look at it
until it begins to shine."
-Emily Dickinson-
"Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face
but black words on a white page are the soul laid bare."
-Guy de Maupassant-
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the
hands of fools. Let's start with the typewriters!"
-Frank Lloyd Wright-
I hope writing serendipitously happens into your life and that you find an extension of your soul dancing amongst words manipulated into an awesome concoction of exquisite expression. Here's hoping you have your own infinite paeans to the wonderful world of words and that I am present to witness them all and be enthralled by them. I love you my beautiful warrior goddess.
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