RIT’N, RESTL’N, RUMINATING,
Jan 08
calling, Cancer, writing God's Story, imprint, Jesus, spiritual thirst, writing 2 Comments
Very difficult days for the writer in me. Daily posted in Christmas week. Loved it. Good response. Then several days of travel from the kids to SoCal. Distractions in reorganizing life back home; a holiday of sorts from writing.
Getting back to the writing cycle is hard. Cycle? Writing comes from the heart, filtered through the head and all that goes on in there. If it’s a passion, good writing makes it way throught the guantlet. Despite distractions, detours, roadblocks, and speedbumps the heart makes its way through the keyboad.
And did I forget to say the pc that supports that keyboard can be a detour? Not like ink drying on the quill or the lead breaking, a dying laptop is an “overthe cliff” detour ! Three full days only partially recovering a crashed computer. Took an hour just to get back up on GenDads this morning and the loss of my email address book means I’m drifting.
PC-less just days before I finally launch my “Writing Getaway,” four days a week away writing “Generational Fatheirng” ’til it’s done. Forced into wrestling with life and writing issues, I’m forced to inventory and re-assess. Entering a new cancer protocol, missing my extraordinary grandchildren, and sharing extreme health conditions of my wife; this stuff makes you think. Such is the winding road from heart through head through keyboad.
Why is this worth posting? Some of you are readers, some are writers. Whichever, I pose you the question. Is there something down there worth pushing and pulling through those detours? If you’re a writer do you just write head stuff ? If a reader, do you have anything down there worth delivering if you did have the writing habit? Why not write something to someone, even yourself, when you come up with an answer.
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Jan 08, 2011 @ 22:33:18
Geeeezzzzzzz…… you are too much gt! You have once again struck the hard to see, hard to find nerve we Real Men don’t want found or touched! It is Self-evaluation with a fearful eye towards mortality. Come on gt, could you blog about football or NASCAR or anything Real Men can feel good about talking about instead of issues of the heart?
Being PC less is tough enough, but when one is forced to look at one’s surroundings and the drama that goes with the surroundings one could become overwhelmed with it all. Self-centered fear! Yikes. What will happen to me if I …… My wife is having issues, what if……. This and that is not the way it is supposed to be….. It goes on and on.. It is times like this when near desperation or overwhelmed we start to really find the answer of fix for our fears.
In my past life it was easy to numb these and most issues to a controllable level by adding several scotch and sodas to the receipt and any other chemical or herb that would help the numbing process. But as life got bigger around me and the more I lost the ability to keep up the torrid pace of dying inside and laughing outside, something happened that would change the rest of my life.
More to come….
Jan 08, 2011 @ 23:30:12
For a half-dead old man, I’m not surprised you caught on. “IT” is about the heart. God built our bodies around IT. He sets our course to fulfill IT. He died to redeem IT. We live to share IT. Better that we find and express IT. All the numbing in the world–and we all have our ways–doesn’t change God’s order. BUT He came to set IT free. A runaway heart reminds us how important IT is.
Thanks for the insights out of your life. I’ll share it with Carolyn.