Hi Janet. You’re not strange, you are highly disciplined. As you say, you are a writer, not only in what you do, but in who you are as well. In this new blog series, I’m hoping to enoourage those of us who haven’t yet reached that level of discipline and commitment. Or maybe just those of us who find the current state of the world a stymying influence that causes our writing voices to go silent in something close to a state of paralysis. I would also like to inspire non-writers to discover the refuge that writing can be, how meditative an experience it is to leave time and space behind and immerse yourself in whatever is coming to life for you on the page. You are an example to us all of how fulfilling that adventure can become. Blessings. Alice

Hi Kayelle. One of the gifts we writers share is the ability, and the tendency, to drop into another world whenever we choose to do so. You’re absolutely right. We aren’t crazy, we’re writers, even when all we appear to be doing is staring into space. That can be a special buffer for us through these crisis times. Which is why I would like to share that refuge with non-writers too, so they can have their own alternate world to access when they need it. All it takes is a notebook and a pen, or whatever. I hope to encourage that whenever and however I can. Blessings. Alice