"Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams.
Small people always do that, but the really great ones
make you feel that you too, can become great."
Mark Twain
This blog is established as an outlet for my ideas about life, spirituality, creativity, and history. Those ideas will be expressed through prose and poetry, and random quotations. Some old, some new, some direct, some subtle. Breffni = the roots of my family tree. Baltimore = Where my life started. The recent posts are focused mostly on the research for my historical novel with an emphasis on the Irish and Choctaw cultures in the mid-17th century Enjoy FAR
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Been dealing with a case of 'the block'. Put writing on the shelf to deal with health issues in the family. Trying to ramp up to regain momentum, cranked out about 600-700 words, and some how lost them attempting to save. Don't know what key stroke I made to do the damage, but it was a momentum killer. Back to ground zero trying to restart. Looked at the file of old pieces and came across the following:
Staring at a blank page
Awaiting inspiration
Millions of issues
Demand prosaic comment
When the ideas start to flow
Will the words be worth the ink?
Will they ever touch
The people with the problems?
Or does drafted metered verse
Merely free you of your guilt?
Through your poems
Do you turn your back on real life?
Wrote that back in 1971 and rereading it convinced me that for a long time my writing was an escape. But now I am convinced that I have something to say. There are parts of history that have been obscured which need to be addressed. Indeed issues that"demand prosaic comment. So screw the loss of 700 words! They were lost in the computer, but they are still in my skull vault, and will be recaptured and inserted into chapter 17.
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