I find this kind of funny because my wife's master's degree and English and math efficiency and her very focused over achiever way of life would make my wife the most excellent writer I know of.
And sometimes she fantacizes about writing Fan Fiction for books she reads. Sometimes she will tell me of her ideas but as of yet hasn't written them down.
Whereas I'm not disciplined in the way she is academically and am very spontaneous about what I write in the moment.
I would say my biggest weakness as a writer is that I really hate to edit what I write. why?
Because what I write often become sort of like my children or even my own Bible of what life is about. So, it's like these are my children and I don't want to edit them because they are all beautiful unto themselves.
Often I read what I have written (or more accurately what God has written through me) and I am completely amazed at what God has sent through me to you and to the world. And this can be years after God sent the words through me in the first place.
So now, I can read things I wrote in 1980 and after and be completely amazed at what God was trying to create through me worldwide already.
By God's Grace
Often Angels will come to me and say: "You are the future of the human race on earth!"
I might say to these angels: "What do you mean?"
Recently they have said something like this: "You have a way of saying what needs to be said for the most humans to survive what is now coming here on earth."
"So, many of the humans that will find a way to survive this century and the next will be reading and listening to what you are writing."
"Because of this you are the future of the human race here on earth."
It's true I'm much more pragmatic than most people you are going to meet partly because of my father's line of pioneers. My great Grandfather was a Captain in the northern Army during the Civil war for example and lived until he was almost 100 years old in Kansas. His wife lived to be 105 years old in Kansas too into the 1950s.
My forebears on my father's side came from Switzerland near Zurich around 1725 to the United States of America before it was the U.S. and I likely had relatives who fought in the revolutionary war.
Then many of my forebears settled from Pennsylvania to Kansas and further west along the way. My grandfather lived with my father and his wife and brothers and sisters in Kansas, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon and finally in Washington near Seattle where my grandfather bought 2 1/2 acres of land there with Apple trees and black cherry trees and raspberries and boysenberries all over the place starting in 1927. My father moved us to San Diego in 1952 when I was 4 years old and so most of my life has been in San Diego, Los Angeles, Mt. Shasta and the SF Bay area.
So, there is this pragmatism that runs through my father's side of the family of starting our own businesses and thinking our own thoughts and educating ourselves in college now and making sure our kids are all educated too so maybe they will all start their own businesses too.
So, this pragmatism of doing whatever it takes to survive might be what the angels are talking about in my writings.
There is this pioneer spirit that believes: "Be as kind as you can to all beings but still survive and prosper."
That's it in a nutshell.
By God's Grace
Maybe I'm sort of like a more hidden Jules Verne of the 21st Century? Maybe.
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