Some Short Thoughts On Writing

Saturday, January 18, 2025

I love writing. It is my therapy, my confidante, my playground of creativity, my place of exploration. It is a quiet place where I can go and get lost, forget the passage of time and come out refreshed.

For I know that if I am writing, I can take care of everything else.

~Louise DeSalvo

And there are times when the access to writing is cut off. Life, family…even with the best laid intentions and that regularly carved out time, these get in the way. I can expect that. Tomorrow will bring something different. And yet maybe it won’t. Sometimes the time away from writing feels too long. Sometimes the urge to put pen to paper tugs at me so strongly that the roadblocks just hurt me, frustrate me, perhaps even upset me. They can pain me, literally, I can feel it in my body.

…And then time opens up again and I feel my body relaxing, my mind expanding and I allow words to come out in whatever way they wish. That is all the practice is, just letting the words flow.