To write, go on vacation. You can either stay home or
travel, but I've found it most important to take some time out. Set a
time and place for relaxing, thinking and letting the thoughts come to the
surface. Often I throw away the first thoughts and words that serve to prime
the pump of memory. But I keep coming back to the writing spot and make a time
to meet myself there.
Deer friend from Cub River Canyon, Idaho |
When my camera is out, she seems to back off more quickly.
So do the butterflies I attempt to capture in a photo. But like my memories,
even though they are not exactly replicated in a photograph, the deer and the butterflies and the grasshoppers and the wild turkeys are
stored in my mind and may peek shyly out of my writing when the time is right.
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Driving along the road I spotted this piece of machinery that spoke to me of my Johnson roots in Preston, Idaho |
It's summertime and the living is easy. Schedule a vacation
from the everyday and let the memories come out of the scrub oak to meet you.
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