No, not crossword puzzles
nor the 1000 piece puzzles
that take a winter to do.
I'm puzzling the nature
of the beast or the pattern
to be found in my posts.
Hm.
I started reading,
always a good place to start,
what other women wrote
about their life lessons
found in knitting.
Lots of posts about books....
Observations about heroes...
Memories...
Mined a vein of silliness...
Now I'm lifting entries
whole cloth into a
manuscript...
Words to paper.
Intimidating!
Putting words on the page
into a book with covers,
an ISBN number, copyright,
means that readers will
hold my words in their
hands
read them with pleasure
or pain
and short of a book burning
it will become part of the literary
culture.
Help!
The finality of the choices,
no more fiddling, no
delete button.
Scary!
I'm standing on the precipice.
On the verge...
(Must hold on to
my knitted rope,
believe it will sustain me.)
And jump.
1 comments:
Know what Pat? those of us who have been listening to your words, reading them, these years ... we're ready and anxious for you to take that leap. We've been waiting, hoping. I understand your 'fears' and anxieties. But, you NEED to do this ... you need to forge ahead and just leap! Take the top down on that convertible and let the wind blow through your hair!
Diane
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