SAY SOMETHING
This year, 2017, I am trying to write something every day.
I have been posting on Medium for over a year. I do it every day. Mainly this was just a personal challenge I undertook, trying to fill a void in my life. When I worked (in a paying job), I wrote everyday — sometimes all day. I have kept many of those pieces of writing — in hard copy form, on little “floppy disks,” on jump/thumb/flash drives, on external/portable hard drives, and on the memory systems of computers from here to Nashville and NYC.
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Sometime, maybe soon, I will revisit some of those writings and use them or discard them. But not yet — too fresh, too soon, too intense.
So now, I just write about life. What I saw, what I did, what I ate, where I went, what I thought. And I am trying — every day — to write down something I am grateful for. I put all the little gratitude slips of paper into a beautiful red glass pitcher, sitting on an antique first-grade chair, in a sunny window in the room we mid-westerners would have called the Florida room.
The journal for food and fitness — that’s a different kind of writing. I trying to do that, too!
“Writing is the painting of the voice.” Voltaire
