Bridget Bryan

“It is necessary to write if the days are not to slip emptily by.”

~Vita Sackville-West

Writing is like drinking water.

The very action of showing up here typing these words, or groggily doing my morning pages a few minutes ago, is like the perkiness one feels coursing through one’s veins when one drinks that first glass of cool water while waiting for the morning coffee to finish brewing.

It’s hard to face the resistance, to show up, but oh how good and alive it feels to sit down and create with words.

Did you know that words have a texture? They can feel like the depth of soft rich velvet, or as clunky as a utilitarian crude block. Words can trip as lightly as a burbling brook, yet be as heavy and off-putting as triggering memories from one’s past. Writing is like going on a merry nature walk, and sometimes like struggling up and around rough switchbacks that never seem to bring you to the mountain top. But, eventually, with relief the summit is reached, and all the labor of the climb was worth every step.

Why do I write? Writing is like drinking water: if I don’t get water, I’ll die. When I assemble words and let them pour forth on paper, life becomes meaningful. Then, I look up from my screen, in contented satisfaction, and smile at my silent inspiring companions, standing straight with decorated spines on their wooden shelves, silent friends young and old; I realize, I am not alone anymore.

Thanks for reading, friends! I hope to be back sharing with you a short pondering and some occasional news each week! Look for me on Thursdays!

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