Prompting Yourself To Write 34
I put all the blame, for the mushiness to come, squarely on Julia Cameron!
It was her idea, afterall. :-D
There it is, in Week 5 of her book Walking in This World...
"Do I allow myself to have passion? Take pen in hand and write yourself a love letter. Be as specific and as affectionate as you can imagine."
OK, so there I was, yesterday evening, in a Del Taco, in Orange, Ca., with nothing better to do, while scarfing down my meal, but to just start writing, come what may, or april, I mean it IS april afer all. :-D
2 hours later I was spent.
Dear Mad Macedonian: A Love Letter
Dear Kiril The Mad Macedonian:
I love you! I love you! I love you!

I have loved you as far back as I can remember, probably going back to when you wrote your first story, and did your first book report and science project, in your 2nd elementary school.
Probably since you gave MLK's "I have a Dream Speech", also in that elementary school.

I loved watching you discover the joys of reading, beginning with the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Star Trek and all those scary John Saul novels, back when all he could think to do was find gruesome ways to kill off kids and teens..
I loved watching you discover your love for history, news and politics and use your imagination to "broadcast" a baseball, or basketball game, as you tossed a tennis ball against the wall, or a basketball against the side of the roof, in your backyard.
I loved how you wrote your own extended "History of the Federation" within the pages of the first Trek reference book ever published, by erasing and writing over, much of what was in the freakin' book!

I simply adored your emerging, peculiar, sense of humor as a teen and 20-something.
Your serious side, growing up, helping your Mom and neighbors and being a neighborhood watch volunteer, impressed me and made me proud, but your letters to the editor of local papers, or to comic books, that got published, made an even greater impression on me.
Who am I?
I'm your creative side, that part of you that loves to write...write poems and tell stories, write opinions and tell funnies and do research for essays and reports.
I'm your imagination...proud, bold, unchained and unafraid!
I was horrified and extremely worried when, by the time you had turned 30, and your parents had died, and you were alone, your creative, imaginative and adventuresome, spirit seemed to mostly take a powder.
You let yourself be "On Call" for your family for far too long, until you were almost 40!
That stiffled me, your creativity!
Except for a self portrait, published in a Star Trek Fan Anthology in 1990 and a few letters to the editor in the 90's, there was nothing for far too long.
Imagine the hope that sprang up in me when you bought a computer in 1998, adopted a kitten and turned it into your creative muse online!
Why did you let your creative passion almost die?
Even back then, in those 3 decades, some thought you weird, as they do today, but remember, The Great Creator made you to become who you are, and He didn't think the design was flawed!

I know your sense of humor flourished, despite everything. :-D
Even though your initial creative efforts were almost completely lost, you didn't let that mistake totally defeat you and when you moved to Orange County I was overjoyed when you discovered your talent for poetry and re-discovered your talent for storytelling and writing essays and doing research.
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