New Year's Non-Resolution

Well....ok, I know. I haven't written much. So the book is going to short that's all. JK.

I've just been busy and not focused on it and focused on other stuff, and busy.....blah, blah, blah.

So we spent the week between Christmas and New Years in Wilmington, NC with my dad, step-mom, my bro, 3 of my 4 sisters and my brother-in-law. Turns out he's writing a book, too, and could use some accountability as well!

So we decided to help each other and make a plan - not a New Year's resolution. A plan.

We're both going to write something every day and post a new blog at least once a week.

That's the plan.

And now you guys know it, too, and I guess that really puts the clincher on it. Darn. Or, I mean, yeah!!

Well, I thought I'd start with some prose I wrote this summer - seems appropriate.

It's called The Author: (enjoy!)

I think I'm an author

a writer of thoughts

of stories

of imaginations and realities

a thinker who must organize my thoughts

unless they be knocked off their pedestals

by the next ones and forgotten

I'm starting to see that I must become a quick doer

for my thoughts and ideas, if not acted upon quickly

are replaced by new thought and new ideas

and fall to the floor like invalids

and after too long, the floor covered in such

can become quite depressing, even morbid

Life is in a hurry for me

like a busy mom clicking her tongue at her slow moving children

knowing she'll be lucky to get all her errands completed before dinner

she cannot rest

she does not have the luxury of waiting

for her days seem numbered and full

full with amazing adventures yet to be had

but known and designed before she was even born

Yes, I'm an author

an author of life

for an author is a channel

from mind to pen

from pen to paper

from paper to other minds

and from there to countess destinations

and pens

and paper

and minds

springing to action without ever speaking a word