At least you sit and write about it while I only think about what I might do if I reminisce about the days when I used to write a lot. I do have a journal in which I write multiple times on some days while on others I'm surprised I haven't written a single line. That gives me a chance to figure out how that could have happened and perhaps write about it if I'm not distracted by something else. I seem to be consistent with my old age inconsistency.
I am sad with you that you no longer write as much. I think that would be difficult. I told someone recently that I thought I would keep writing as long as God gave me the brain power for it.
At the same time, from my vantage point I think that perhaps at 91, you have earned a right to sit and reminisce.
And yet for me that absence of writing would, I think produce an aching sadness, regardless of my age.
By the way, I am studying a book with a small group, and that book is calling us to do the spiritual practice of Examen daily. I just checked my notebook and I have neglected that practice for the past three days.
At least you sit and write about it while I only think about what I might do if I reminisce about the days when I used to write a lot. I do have a journal in which I write multiple times on some days while on others I'm surprised I haven't written a single line. That gives me a chance to figure out how that could have happened and perhaps write about it if I'm not distracted by something else. I seem to be consistent with my old age inconsistency.
Helen, I have mixed feelings as I read your note.
I am sad with you that you no longer write as much. I think that would be difficult. I told someone recently that I thought I would keep writing as long as God gave me the brain power for it.
At the same time, from my vantage point I think that perhaps at 91, you have earned a right to sit and reminisce.
And yet for me that absence of writing would, I think produce an aching sadness, regardless of my age.
By the way, I am studying a book with a small group, and that book is calling us to do the spiritual practice of Examen daily. I just checked my notebook and I have neglected that practice for the past three days.
You are not alone. I hear you.