I'm Just Me...

  Last night, I had an epiphany for a new short story, and I'm very excited about this! It isn't that I don't have ideas for stories all the time, because I do. No. The epiphany came because, well, I realized my mashed potatoes are finally looking ' right ' to me!   Do you remember the movie, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind?' Remember the scene where Richard Dreyfus was building a plate full of mashed potatoes trying to make something he knew in his spirit was correct, but couldn't put into words, or a plate of mashed potatoes what it was he was trying to show to his wife? Well, last night, I was playing the role of Richard Dreyfus!    A few years ago, I gained knowledge of a place that I know inside of me is real, and yet, in a sense, not real at the same time. Inside of me, I know what it is I want to show you, but I can't quite make it connect with my words, because I realize, there are no words to describe the essence of that place. For ...

   Wait for it! It's quite the ride at the end when you read it !       It's been a busy day for me here on the East Coast of North America, and I'm just sitting down to my laptop for the first time today, and it's Four-thirty in the afternoon! It's too late in the day to really delve into writing either of my books, or edit a short story or Two since it's almost the dinner hour, and then I'm going to visit with family after, so what's a girl to do? Well. . . if you're me, you sit to write a blog! And so, that's what I'm doing.     Today's Blog doesn't really have anything to do with writing, other than, I'm writing it, so instead, it's going to be a meander through my thoughts. Well, maybe it's about w riting too, and to use the words of the antagonist in my book, 'TTITC,' "I'll get to it then!" Okay, here we go! Here's what I've been thinking about today -       Is it only myself, or ...

  I was recently told 'I think too much.' Aren't we supposed to be thinking? Digesting? Conversing? Communicating? And thinking some more? Isn't that the silliest statement ever? I mean, think about it?   I think so. I think thinking is the only way to resolve issues, make decisions, live our lives wholly. Thinking is the basic core of our selves. Without thoughts, how does one know anything? Without thinking , how does anyone ever solve an issue, create a new product, or write a book ? W a r s have been started because someone didn't think of the consequences. People have died, because no one thought about the cost of a life. Without thinking, how does anyone put one foot in front of the other and decide to take a step ; either backwards or forward ? O ne must think about which direction to travel. Don't you think? Do you agree?   And so, I've been thinking.    It's been an interesting year so far. As of today, a great deal of eye -opening conclu...