I rave
I was raving
I have raven
The writer has raven at their desk, creating words with wings, turning madness into a wonderland; and so you see, dear Alice, that they are much alike.
We actually do expect the literary inquisition because it happens in periods of war and instability. We expect the rounding up and "shooting" (literal or figurative - depending on where you are) of literary intellectuals because we have the power to make the world anew. The question I would like to pose though, is why? We can make a heaven on Earth. We can bring dignity and a powerful sense of sacredness to every person in the world, we can bring a good future for all mankind. We can bring the love-nexus. We can show that we care for every nation. We can make war a thing of the past. We can solve the problems that are creating poverty, misery and sickness... So, dear leaders of the money-nexus, we should be welcomed as friends who can solve your problems, provide answers and bring societal calm and cooperation. We are the solution, not the problem. We are the cure, not the disease. We have the ability to bring lasting order through positive neurological healing of populations. So... I get it... there are millions and billions of people to care for... that's a huge responsibility... so, let us help. Let us help. Because we will work all our days for that end, for every human, for all of creation. We were born for this. Not for power, yet for service and support. The pen is more powerful but we have the same objective... peace ... thriving cultures... a sustainable world... a future for everyone that has a great standard of living.
That said, dear young writers, dear young intellectuals, please stand back and let the grown ups get on with this. By all means comment, make your opinions heard, it is the leaders are who are always targeted. This is the war of your parents generation. We have the life experience. We have the duty to protect the young. You own the future; let we old ones own the now. For in this battle is the truth of Generation X. Your truth will come later. You will continue the fixing of Earth long after we have passed on. Be safe, we love you. xxx
When I write it is like making another hole in the bucket that carries my hidden pain.
Dear writer, your penned medication is my salvation.
The writer not well versed in the philosophy of the Love-Nexus and the Money-Nexus, ignorant of the role of creative storytellers in society, are as wine connoisseurs who can't tell soda pop from fine vintage.
The foundation of the Oscar is the writer, the poet soul, and so though we of course honour the entire ecosystem that makes the movie, those that convert light into sugar must realise their worth as producers.
Writers can achieve the same as cognitive behavioural therapists, only on the scale of the masses rather than one on one. They can help inward reflection, trigger recognition and role model good responses rather than the reactions that don't lead to good things. More than that they contain the metaphors of dreams, speak in the primal language of the brain (emotion and imagery), they help positive brain chemistry and can change what words signify to boost social cohesion and positive self esteem. Writers are amazing.
In my craft I fashion a thing that time cannot wear down, a product no person may consume; yet my craft elevates the soul by consuming the poison of emotional indifference and medicating with love. My words are part of our societal immune system and that makes me proud to call myself a writer.
The desk was a recycled wood upon strong iron legs, each at a jaunty angle as if it was stretching before a pleasant jog. The wood was upcycled, I think they say, and I wondered if had once been a door. In the grain were flecks of colours that many front doors in this neighbourhood are, so many vibrant hues in every season, like rainbow freckles. I wondered how many smiles it had seen, how the many had seen it and felt the relief of coming home. Yet for now the desk was my doorway into adventures of words and imagination, the tip toes of each emotion I write in pixelated ink.
I will always be a writer, it was imprinted into my soul. My art it pours out of me, as if my heart wishes to sing all day and all night. It is such a chatterbox, this heart of mine. It dances in the words as if it were performing a ballet, loving each tiny movement. It comes as a river, often gentle, yet with a flow that appears to have a sense of where it is going. It comes to be born rather than moulded, to show itself for what it is. It is a lot of me and a lot of divine inspiration, or that is how I see it when an artist truly loves, when the art is the proof of the loving heart.
Dear writer, will you right me? Will you hear the searing of my heart and seal in more of the cure, less of the craving for all that harms? Will you be the arms without bullets, bring the kind of digits that are kind and wrap around the ropes that bring me to a grassy bank, to make this distance nothing, so that I may place these bare feet on solid ground, that I may let this boat rest on the shore, in the surety of trust, in the harbour of your love; for if that is what you harbour, if I'm right, I'm already home. It would be so lovely though, dear writer, if you would write.
In good moods a writer may paint words that are fine wine and soft music; words that contain more healing medicine than all the drugs created by man. They are clear water over rocks, a shelter in any storm. They are food for the soul of every flower of the light. So I vow to only write what is right, inspired by the golden illumination of a sun that never dies. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword, for a pen can weave love; a pen can bring the cleansing rain of hope; a pen can speak words so sublime as to last all the ages of man.
Taliana was a beautiful person, not in looks, though she was pretty enough. It was like God had planted a seed of perfect caring in her soul and it was ripping her apart as it grew. Every time she saw the imperfections of the world for humans, animals and the environment it was like a vice to her head. The pain built inside her until anxiety took her prisoner. How was she to change what she saw? What was the good of enlightenment if there was no way to make a difference? Volcanic frustration balled inside her, only exploding around those she felt safest with. She ripped into her mother for every hair-line fault while her mind created reasons for the pressure in her head, attributing blame to friends and family. Her only talent was to write, create fiction; she wanted to take that seed of understanding and cast it far away. What was the point in seeing, feeling the pain of people in disparate parts of the globe? Why couldn't she shut it out like everyone seemed to?
The least popular and gifted of her friends, Heidi had found more happiness than any of them. While they pursued glory she worked quietly on her own. While they would only consider the finest looking men she sought the one with the kindest heart. She had shunned a high flying career in favour of working days at an animal shelter and writing her stories by night. If it took ten or twenty years of practice she was willing to put in the time, how else could she tell the tales that dwelt in her heart? She had no uptown apartment or fancy car, and she had no more friends than she could count on one hand; but she was happy. She loved her job, her boyfriend and her tiny apartment filled with other peoples cast offs. It was eclectic, vibrant, and all hers. She had the freedom to create entire worlds and populate them with characters, creating conflicts only to solve them in her own surprising ways. For Heidi happiness would never come from a store, unless it was a store selling her books...
The difference between utopia and dystopia isn't the technology. We can have a high-tech heaven-on-earth or a high-tech hell. The difference is our culture, how we treat one another and how we care for the rest of life on earth. Don't get me wrong, I believe that scientists do God's work as much as anyone, but without the writers, the philosophers and the soulful guidance of religious leaders, we will veer dangerously toward a future of the rich getting richer and the poor being disposable. That is why I'll be a writer until my days above the ground are done. Writers together can educate through fictional stories in a way that direct teaching cannot, people need to form their own conclusions. So never let anyone belittle your talent for the written word. The world needs creative writers as much as the mathematicians and engineers, perhaps even more so.
What about STEM supremacy? Can we lampoon that now? Why is it that the creatives are always disrespected? Only a few can be celebrated celebrities and the rest are "nothing," just noting it, that's all. I'm "just a writer, a "right-her." I'm not looking to become a silly-bratty.
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