Counting Blessings, my new blogpost collection, started out with a poem. I was thinking to myself: "What a gloriously excellent title!"
And so started the poem that became my first published piece of writing.
We're surrounded by little, beautiful things that sometimes we don't really notice because of the sheer number of them.
Every now and then, it's healthy to take a step back and admire. Counting only a small fraction of them will really surprise you (in a good way!). Give it a try today!
So many wonderful things that pass by unnoticed, that have faded to a mere background.
This is a tribute to them.
A typewriter should be the doctor's prescription for any case of writer's block or editing mishaps. Paragraphs seem to flow with unobstructed ease, spurred merely by a good idea and the delicious clack of keys. Every letter is accompanied by a clean, crisp sound that makes your writing sound important. A burst of inspiration is applauded by an absolute torrent of clicking and clacking. You are rewarded for your genius with the dance of delicate wires, working in the undergrowth of the forest of creamy keys to bring you the freshly painted words that you have just conceived.
A typewriter proudly acknowledges the fact that you are hard at work and that you are, in fact, inspired, when a computer couldn't care less, and barely registers your furious tapping with a muted click. A typewriter will never abandon you with excuses of "program failure" or "non-responsive networks" or worse, a complete "shutdown", as a computer does. A typewriter is faithful to the bitter end, and will only entice you with an innocent glow of its glory days, earnestly begging you to write.
And so started the poem that became my first published piece of writing.
We're surrounded by little, beautiful things that sometimes we don't really notice because of the sheer number of them.
Every now and then, it's healthy to take a step back and admire. Counting only a small fraction of them will really surprise you (in a good way!). Give it a try today!
So many wonderful things that pass by unnoticed, that have faded to a mere background.
This is a tribute to them.
A typewriter should be the doctor's prescription for any case of writer's block or editing mishaps. Paragraphs seem to flow with unobstructed ease, spurred merely by a good idea and the delicious clack of keys. Every letter is accompanied by a clean, crisp sound that makes your writing sound important. A burst of inspiration is applauded by an absolute torrent of clicking and clacking. You are rewarded for your genius with the dance of delicate wires, working in the undergrowth of the forest of creamy keys to bring you the freshly painted words that you have just conceived.
A typewriter proudly acknowledges the fact that you are hard at work and that you are, in fact, inspired, when a computer couldn't care less, and barely registers your furious tapping with a muted click. A typewriter will never abandon you with excuses of "program failure" or "non-responsive networks" or worse, a complete "shutdown", as a computer does. A typewriter is faithful to the bitter end, and will only entice you with an innocent glow of its glory days, earnestly begging you to write.
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