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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Quote of the day...

I love deadlines. I love the whoshing noise they make as they go by.
--Douglas Adams, comedy writer

Excerpts from My Book, Companion Through The Darkness

"What is there to say about grief?
"Grief is a tidal wave that overtakes you, smashes you up into its darkness, where you tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces, only to be thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised, reshaped.
"Grief means not being able to read more than two sentences at a time. It is walking into rooms with intention that suddenly vanishes.
"Grief is three-o'clock-in-the-morning sweats that won't stop. It is dreadful Sundays, and Mondays that are no better. It makes you look for a face in a crowd, knowing full well the face we want cannot be found in that crowd.
"Grief is utter aloneness that razes the rational mind and makes room for the phantasmagoric. It makes you suddenly get up and leave in the middle of a meeting, without saying a word.
"Grief makes what others think of you moot. It shears away the masks of normal life and forces brutal honesty out of your mouth before propriety can stop you. It shoves away friends, scares away so-called friends, and rewrites your address book for you.
"Grief makes you laugh at people who cry over spilled milk, right to their faces. It tells the world that you are untouchable at the very moment when touch is the only contact that might reach you. It makes lepers out of upstanding citizens.
"Grief discriminates against no one. It kills. It maims. And cripples. It is the ashes from which the phoenix rises, and the mettle of rebirth. It returns life to the living dead. It teaches that there is nothing absolutely true or untrue. It assures the living that we know nothing for certain.
"It humbles. It shrouds. It blackens. It enlightens.
"Grief will make a new person out of you, if it doesn't kill you in the making."
Copyright © 1992 Stephanie Ericsson All Rights Reserved

What this blog is about...

I'd rather paint. It hurts less. People come and ohhhh! and ahhhh! at your openings, and for one night, at least, you get to know if you got close to the mark. But writers rarely do, since we can't get into people's heads and listen to the thoughts we provoke.

But a writer writes. That's just what we do. It's not something we get a lot of choice about. The world could be coming down around me, and I'll chose one of two things to do--either I write or I read. It's what I do. If the dishes aren't done, well, that's because something has to be written, or has to be read.

Maybe it's a form of paying ahead... naw...it's more like screaming into a windtunnel ...because there are just some things that simply cannot be left unsaid...

Copyright © 2009 Stephanie Ericsson All Rights Reserved

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Quote of the day...

Pages

Browse Inside My Book, Companion Through The Darkness

Companion now has it own Facebook Page!

Contact Me...

If you quote me, or repost one of my posts, please give me credit...

NEW! Follow Me

Emma Goldman

What Are Books For?

On Being a Writer

Related Links

Wm Saroyan Gems

On The Rights Of Ideas

On Art As Life

Excerpts from My Book, Companion Through The Darkness

Come Visit My Guerrilla Garden

Stephanie Ericsson's Books & Agent

Amazon Readers Give Stephanie Five Stars Out of Five

Books Edited by Stephanie Ericsson

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Facing the Blank Page

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On Being a Writer

On Being A Writer

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Wm Saroyan Gems

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