If Someone Gave You a Pen…

Read this first:
Write Your Own Life by David A. Berman.

It feels appropro this week, as I move from worker to writer, as I quest for the story I’m MEANT to write, and write the story that feels good too.

What would I write if I had that pen? It’s something I think about whenever I watch “Lost”. If my plane crashed on a deserted isle, and I survived intact, what would I do? I’d be digging through the remains of the plane, salvaging paper and pens and pencils, and writing. I’d try to learn how to make paper, and write.

Or maybe, I’d be camp storyteller. That too is a possibility. “Write your own life” is an article about possibility, but it blends everything I am at this point in time. I’m trying to figure out how to live a remarkable life, and live it through writing. I don’t know the answer yet, but I’m close on the trail.

I do know that writing has given me: peace, healing, sanity, joy, self-confidence, and love in the past few weeks. In fact, with the exception of the people I love, God and life itself, I can think of no bigger blessing than writing. Who’d have ever figured that?