The Thing I Call ‘my

If You Can Stand To Wait 24 Hours Before You Decide The Fate Of What You Have Written - Either Good Or Bad - You're More Likely To See That Invisible Thing That Is Invisible For The First Few Days In Any New Writing. We Just Can't Know What All Is In A Sentence Until There Are Several Sentences To Follow It. Pages Of Writing Need More Pages In Order To Be Known, Chapters Need More Chapters.

If It Is Your Time, Love Will Track You Down Like A Cruise Missile.

The Happy Ending Is Hardly Important, Though We May Be Glad Its There. The Real Joy Is Knowing That If You Felt The Trouble In The Story, Your Kingdom Isnt Dead.

The Groove Is So Mysterious. We're Born With It And We Lose It And The World Seems To Split Apart Before Our Eyes Into Stupid And Cool. When We Get It Back, The World Unifies Around Us, And Both Stupid And Cool Fall Away. I Am Grateful To Those Who Are Keepers Of The Groove. The Babies And The Grandmas Who Hang On To It And Help Us Remember When We Forget That Any Kind Of Dancing Is Better Than No Dancing At All.

The Thing That Really Struck Me When I Went To Junior High Was Class. I Grew Up On A Pretty Poor Street, But The School District I Was In Included Some Fine Neighborhoods - So I Got To Know A Couple Of The Kids From Those Places And Went To Their Houses And Experienced Such Culture Shock.