Honoring the inner child

“Thank you for helping me believe in myself again.”  A lady who joined Lifewriting Ultra yesterday gladdened my heart.

 

“Thank you, Steve.

I have had a lifelong dream of writing. I even believed I could. Until my high school literature final went south. My sense of humor and deliberate anachronisms did not resonate with the grading rubric.

 

I spent 3 days in bed. And when I got up, I had also given up. Not on my dream but on my skills.

 

It’s been 30 years.

 

Time enough, don’t you think?

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