If you are a frequent visitor to this blog then you know that for the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity to make new friends and visit some old ones in Florida. It's a different mind-set in the warmer climes. The elderly come to escape the cold and the young come to embrace the semi-tropical freedom that youthful hearts crave.
I talked to one interesting fellow who was a mate on a sailing schooner. He taught me how to raise the main and sweat the lines. He had his masters degree in another discipline, but was interested in writing. He seemed to have a hard case of writers block. He was harboring experiences from which to write, but couldn't seem to find the time to let them sail or sale.
There is a creative energy in every experience we have. If your birth gift is to write then the mind transfers that energy to the heart where it is mixed with the divine spirit and sends it back to the mind as creative thoughts, sentences, paragraphs and stories. It works in a similar ways with other birth gifts like art, music, and sculpture except in those disciplines the energy goes into trained creative hands to manifest as paintings, songs, compositions and form.
Bosco (the Mate) if you read this, set a time each day, maybe two times, to write. Even if it's ten minutes. Soon you will find that interpreting your experiences through words will be addictive and the blocks will be gone.
I went to visit Earnest Hemingway's house and now museum in Key West. What a fascinating life he led and what great creativity came from his experiences. He once said he could write a story in six words. He did.
"For sale, baby shoes, never used."
We each have a birth gift. Finding it is sometimes a lifelong task.
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