Following your passion, following what you are here on this earth to do will open up windows, doors and floods of opportunities and provide answers in your life course for the hardships you struggle with.
Today, starts the beginning of what I am certain will be many miracles as I encourage my family, neighbors and community to write. In just sharing my CAP with those around me I see the light of pure intelligence flow from my lips to your heart and mind. My mother sent me a message today telling me she had joined a writing group and wanted to share with me her first excerpt: A memoir she called "The Family Library." My third grade mother remembered a time when she was lost in the wonder of words. From War and Peace to Charles Dickens shelves higher than her Daddy spread knowledge and world time travel she was in awe. So much so that she felt obliged to make library cards for her neighbor friends and entitle them with the privilege of checking out books from "her" library. So the masses came but big sister intervened shaming little mom for not asking permission and hence, insisting that she would have to lend out her own library books! Oh the world injustices! Years later my mom ran into one of her friends whom she wanted to, but restrained herself--ask her to return her overdue library book!
In my mom's writing group an additional assignment was to share what inspires you. My dear mom, usually guarded and careful to complement listed off what inspired her to write. She said observing the little things in nature, reflecting, journalling and my oldest daughter. For me, a monumental offering. In other words, she appreciates my gift. She cherishes my insights. Enough so that when the time was right for her, she, too, is inspired to write. I believe genuinely connecting families can have more power than we know. I can't wait for all of us to find that common thread that unites us.
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