I am grateful for…. this was a tough day to choose one because there are so many things I feel
grateful for… I walked through the door to get my cup of coffee to write
(grateful) and smelled the applesauce cooking in my crock pot (grateful) from
the apples we picked with my children, my mom and friends (grateful.) I stopped
to check some of my works-in-progress (grateful) as the Mod Podge dries on them
(grateful.) I admired my photo editing handiwork on Anais Nin (grateful) and I
thought about this session of #wordmongering (grateful.)
How do I choose one and say, “This is it!”
I am grateful today for my love affair with old books. I
love to take old books and use them as my medium. I talk the pages out, I dye
them or paint them (or both). I read as I go. I iron the pages when they dry. I
sometimes print photo images on top of the pages. I sculpt and mold the pages.
I read them aloud, again.
I share them with people around me who can’t help but listen to my insistent oratory.
I use them when I teach writing sessions to prompt my fellow
writers.
I am grateful I have been collecting old books, dictionaries and thesauri so I never run out.
I am grateful for the texture of the paper in old textbooks:
some of those books are my favorite.
I am grateful for the brave women authors, especially, who wrote before women had the right to vote or the right to own property or the right, some thought, to be taken seriously.
I am grateful for the stories within the pages.
I am grateful for my love affair with old books and all the shapes, twists and turns my love takes me.
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