For Life Story Writers

Life stories have long, high-jumping, fast-running legs. They can heal, pass on culture and history to future generations, and set the record straight. They leap into memoirs, autobiographies, songs, poetry, visual art, satires, cartoons, novels, and fact-based fiction. If you're already writing your life stories, or planning to, I hope that my writing journeys shared here will give you ideas for where your journey can take you.


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Then and Now

Welcome Blog-supporters! Thank you for keeping me company on my daily mental excavations! I'd love it if you would add your stories and comments. 

THEN and NOW

THEN, my main question was WHY:

Why am I here?
Why do people have to kill each other to resolve conflicts?
Why is it legal to get drunk and illegal to get stoned?
Why doesn't he (or she) love me anymore?
Why did my dog die?
Why do I have to eat and sleep?
Why doesn't God help me?

The answer: I don't know!


NOW,  my main question is WHERE:

Where are my computer glasses?
Where are the chocolate chip cookies I baked yesterday?
Where's the Post Office? (I thought it was on this street!)
Where's the plumber's phone number? 
Where's my parrot hiding?
Where is God?

The answer: I don't know!

THEN, I was air-born with no flight plan
NOW, I'm grounded and stuck where I landed









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