Enter the dark space. Open your eyes. If you can’t find a candle, look for the light inside you. Consider what you find. Make adjustments. Welcome the new and wondrous. Watch the glow expand.
Now you can see everything.
Just a thought 21
Candle image courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt began her writing career the way so many others have done: by first doing everything else. Winning entries in grade school art, story, and essay contests convinced her to become a writer, but the real world intruded in adulthood and demanded she pay bills, raise kids, be a contributing member of the community. Along that rutted path she worked in the commercial art field designing patterns for surfer shorts, bikinis, and Hawaiian style shirts, taught after-school art through a city recreation program, and structured an art curriculum for three private schools. Ten years ago the writing muse, struggling to breathe in letters to friends and art articles, found its way to the surface. In a two-week period Shari wrote 60 pages of her first historical novel, and didn’t stop for three years. By then a second book demanded paper – OK, computer space – and now the third is in final revision stage. Of course, final revision is two words with a long shadow and a little footprint. Some folk claim they will write when the floors get vacuumed, the family accounting completed, the new garden planted. Shari is proof that all those things can be successfully ignored but not the urge to write. Her fiction explores human relationships, revenge, rage, forgiveness, redemption, and all the labyrinthine quandaries that mess up otherwise perfect lives. She resides in Southern California with her husband who’s learned to vacuum but not to cook. And the garden needs help.
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Comments on: "Illuminate" (12)
Beautifully uplifting, Shari…celebrating the light outside and within us. Sometimes it’s easy to forget the gifts and beauty we carry…a touching reiminder. Hugs xx
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I like your interpretation, Annika. Readers bring so much to what we write.
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Once my husband and I went to have our auras read. That was pretty illuminating. My husband found out he was a healer. I found out I was a drama queen artist (who knew?).
One lady was told she was crazy and would have trouble finding work!
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That must have been an experience, Adrienne – I would love to have been the fly. Do you and hubby still talk about it? Have you incorporated it into a story? Or would that be too close to the prediction? The possibilities!
I don’t have the courage to listen to someone tell me my future.
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Now I can see. Sigh.
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You’ve always been able to see, Jacqui.
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Love this thought Sharon.
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Thank you, Irene.
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Trusting in the light you provide so well. Lovely message.
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I’ve been trying to channel positive thoughts.
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My favorite quote from Edith Wharton: “There are two ways of spreading light; To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
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I’ve copied the Wharton quote into my favorite thoughts folder. It reminds me there are multiple ways of doing good in the world, and all are better than doing nothing.
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