I don't want to be a throw away line

Why tell stories?

I posted this comment earlier today over at Rachelle Gardner's blog .. in response to her broad question of 'why people wanna be published.'

My take is this .. I'm posting my original comment to her .. here:

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I can't speak for the many.

However, I'm inspired to publish stories because .. like Eugene Peterson explains (quote below), I use story to invite people in to a world larger than they perhaps imagined .. for the purpose of sharing a nugget of something someone might need in a way they might not have thought about.

If I have something to share that will help open up depths with a person that they didn't know they had.. that is something .. to use my words to help someone (me included).. that is the reason.

"...stories invite us into a world larger than ourselves.. our lives are stories..they have plots, they have intent.. we're never the only person in the story.. if we just live within ourselves, or our lives are determined by our own needs, wants.. it gets a very small world.. and it's really not a storied world.. so story tellers have always been the people in our society that have brought us into the world that is larger than us.. and there's a past, there's a future.. we've always told stories."

"Every time a story is well told, the Gospel is told." -Eugene Peterson

I don't want to be a throw away line.

Therapy

I highly dis-recommend it. Not really.

Three years this spring marks my early departure from law school. I figured out last week it is killing my entire being and I raised my hand to say.. help.

Saw a doctor about it.

Doc said, glad you saw me.. now, I want you to see a 'therapist'.

Yay.

So, today was that day.

Double yay.

Needless to say.. tears and now current headache are ensuing. It'll get better. But, now.. my head hurts.

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One of my friends asked this afternoon how it went.. and I replied, well.. it wasn't exactly like an hour with Juan at the massage place / spa .. but y'know.. whatever.

Be inspired

Karen Harrington's blog post inspired me. Love that.

Passing it on .... click the link. You'll love it. It only takes a couple minutes.

Still writing..

Oh the joy of a story coming together.. it is so very blissful.

Miles to go

I'm writing. It's a story. It's a good one.

I waited for it and it came. It continues to rain down. It is an old story, it is a beautiful story, it is a long story .. peace comes but strife is to be endured and .. joy is in it.

I hear a slow echo-ing spiritual .. a haunting story of lost love and passing trains and graveyard stones.

Good night small town.. a train is rollin' by.. miles to go ..

Can I Just Say

I feel so guilty for neglecting my blog lately. It won't last tho.. I'll be back.. (in case anybody reads this and wonders).

Sigh.

p.s. I'm totally into Dancing With the Stars.. American Idol .. and Lost.

Then there's facebook. And my job, and my kids, and mail, and bills and decisions decisions decisions.

Arghhhhhh.