Time Slips Away…Writing Still!

February 2010 and I’ve dropped the ball on my blog!  With renewed intent, I invested a lot of energy in the Fall to completing several projects, to clear the path for focusing on the book.  I have learned I can not delve into this writing project while spinning away to other projects.  The writing consumes me.  Finally in late December 2009, I dove deep.  Pressing outside requests aside, I was blessed to find Kiersten.  She’s helped me organize, make sense of the order of the book.  Finally the chapters are identified, the mass of writings now organized by chapter – all this taking until the end of January, 2010.

Oh, my – I’ve written a lot; sometimes I’ve written about the same incident from different points of view.  I didn’t know how much I would be learning about perspective.  Ready to dive into cleaning up each chapter, we’ve been blessed with record breaking snows instead! Here’s our home under four feet of snow:

Should be cozy to watch it snow and write?  The reality is different – fear of losing power, periodically shoveling snow to keep accumulations manageable, recovering from shoveling and watching weather reports – all distractions.  Finally with sidewalk and drive way as clear as possible removing dangerous icicles as needed, now I can write… right?  Whoops – another snow is coming. 

Errands to run while the roads are open again but I’m anxious to write – NOW!  All that shoveling brings up new memories each captured in spurts between shoveling sessions.  Clarity… time away from the writing brings new clarity, new perspectives.  So today and tomorrow I’ll write and then see what this new snow storm brings.  That’s all I could do when Jim was alive.. take each day as it came, each circumstance as it arose. And, that’s how I write this book.

With a dedicated purpose, an open heart and with constant prayers for the highest outcome for all – that’s how I lived with Jim and his disease. This is how I am writing our story.  All in good time.

And now to feed the birds…. warm hugs to all.  Barbara

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