Writing

 When something needs to be written I usually can feel it coming 2 weeks to a month before it really comes through. I suppose it is like meeting someone new that you are dating when you are young especially or having a child for the first time in some ways. It is a very special feeling when something important comes to be written about. However, then it is all about commitment to finishing enough of what you got to write about so you feel good about the whole thing. In other words, something you write that is longer takes a lot more commitment than a one night stand. So, it's sort of like the commitment to a relationship or something like that I find. 

Then the next thing is to respect what you have written so you don't get frustrated and just delete the whole thing. It's important to respect your writing process as it is also about your spiritual process and is a kind of religious experience. (At least that is what it is to me). So, for me at least I'm not trying to make money really but trying to increase my relationship to God and Angels and all life in the Universe and beyond. This is what writing is about for me.

However, we are all different and my style is more being a storyteller. Some writers are more about form and some are about substance. I'm more interested in substance than form. In other words I really don't care of all the words are spelled correctly or even if words are left out sometimes as long as I get across what is important for me to write about from God and Angels. So, writing for me is a prayerful activity and a religious experience with God and Angels especially if I'm writing something longer and more involved.

Also, for me, I don't really end things I write because I see writing is a lot like our lives where it seems they never really ever end. I'm presently 76 years old and being alive that long is a long long time to be alive and during that time we all become many different people of necessity along the way to survive whatever comes in our lives both good and bad.

I'm glad that my forebears on both sides of my family were survivors. My father's people first came to America in 1725 right around there. My mother's side of the family came to the U.S. (after my Grandfather and Grandmother were born in the U.S. Then a disaster hit both families and they met in Glasgow, Scotland I believe and my mother's people were from Clydebank where they build ships and my Grandfather's people were from Ayr on the coast just south of Glasgow on the west Coast of Scotland.

I took my mother there to see where her father and mother grew up after they returned from America because disaster struck both of their families. My Grandfather's father died in Boston trying to get medicine for my Grandfather and my Grandmother's family's house burned down in Philadelphia. So, both families had to return to Scotland to their families there after that. Then in their 20s they met with similar disaster stories and married in Scotland and came to the U.S. around 1910 and both stayed in the U.S. until they passed away. My Grandfather passed away around 1960 and my Grandmother and all three of her daughters each lived to be 90 years old. My Grandmother passed away in Seattle in 1978.

Writing I find to be very healing cathartic and cleansing in many different ways. I especially usually like reading what I have written Days, Weeks, months or years later. Each time I read what I have written I learn something new about myself and whatever I'm writing about.

Life is Amazing!

By God's Grace