In My Write Mind

[originally posted September 2005]

I‘m not a phone person. Never really have been one. I will do it when necessary. Carry on a great conversation, even. But still, my preference has never been fiber optic. I like to see the person I’m talking to. Or else be able to communicate in my most comfortable medium — through the written word. However, yesterday, when that number was given to me, when I had the opportunity to make that phone call … nothing could stop me. Nothing could hold me back from dialing. Nothing.

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[originally posted August 2005]

Someone asked me an important question last week. It was a fellow blogger. One known for asking me questions in my comments section with great regularity. LOL One who seemingly knows how and when to ask the right most poignant question. Pondering it made me look up from my keyboard and actually stop typing my answer for a second. It made me reflect. I quickly shook it off and responded, but not before a mini-soul search. Not before that little Yahoo! emoticon with the question mark momentarily popped into my head. She made me think.

What was the question, you ask? It was this (and I paraphrase): Is the Summer of Will a farewell tour of sorts, where this is my last hurrah before I settle down and have babies?

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[originally posted September 2005]

A heartbeat away. That’s where most of us are from accomplishing, from tasting the sweetness of success. It’s that heartbeat, pulsating within that one moment, that makes life worth living. Makes it all worthwhile.

Sometimes, it’s all we have … that one moment. A moment to give or take, to make good or give up, to pass or shoot, to tackle or let the runner go by, to sink low or to elevate to high ground. It’s in that moment — that instant — that we can navigate our path, making a new beginning or reveling in the past, go to the point of no return and still have the option to go back. That moment will either provide us with surreal clarity or impair us with sheer blindness.

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