Writing

  For me, writing is a way to express myself when I don't have someone right here to talk to about things. Even though my wife and I talk about all sorts of things in some ways we are very different though extremely complimentary in that we are sort of like two sides of the same coin.

But there are things I want to write about often that I don't necessarily want to share with her that I can share with all of you in a certain kind of way.

For me, public speaking is okay and i got an A in Public Speaking at College of the Siskiyous around 1990 which is a community college near Mt. Shasta in Weed next door. So, though public speaking I have no problem with it is not something I gravitate too because I'm more of an adventurer but also a private person. When you have been through all the things I have been through in life you mostly want to walk along a beach or go skiing or traveling around the world if you can because life can be really tough. Then on top of this I have been divorced twice (once in 1977 and 1978) and once in 1994 which was also a child custody case which is a hell experience for most people too and many don't survive this time in their lives. However, I tend to be a survivor like my forebears who settled this country starting in 1727 which I shared what I had just learned about recently as they sailed from Europe on a ship up to Philadelphia up the river there from the ocean in 1727.

So, to me, being in the wilderness heals my soul and makes me happy whether that is at the beach or in the mountains or the desert and traveling around the world is often a happy thing for me to do too. And writing about all of this also gives me a lot of joy.

Writing about all the adventures in my life that I survived gives me joy. maybe it's all just as simple as that.

So, if writing helps you survive better maybe you should write because it can be very healing and life Giving and help you to be closer to God!

By God's Grace