And Write Your Way Home

 

And Write Your Way Home

 

And write your way home

Everybody spends their life trying to find their way home. I have been searching all my life for what home should have been, but wasn’t. And now I am trying to write my way home.

And write your way home

I write to hear my own voice – not in a narcissistic way, but rather in a search for my authentic voice, the personal in the stories I write which resonates with the universal. It is Home I am searching for, not my home.

And write your way home

What is home anyway? The Old White Farmhouse I grew up in is such a character in my stories that I capitalize it like a proper name. But, in the end, it is just a collection of wood and stone that has been remodeled by the new owners to be unrecognizable to me. The home I search for is a sense of belonging, not a place.

And write your way home

Thus, writing my way home is my path to being human. I seek to trap in my words universal truths - not to possess them but to speak them; to hone them on the whetstone of life; to reduce them to their innermost, purest cores, truths that, taken together, reveal themselves to be the infinite.

And write your way home

When the truths are revealed, I will finally understand that home is the journey, not the destination.

 

 

Inspired by "Blessing for a Writer" by Pat Schneider

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