It’s amazing what is triggered in different parts of your brain.
Listening, smelling, writing, others’ stories …
Tapping
Tapping into something bigger and deeper.
Waking up your whole brain.
Maybe that’s why we’re writers.
Because when we write, we’re ALIVE.

Easter eggs and grandparents’ museum house with odd-tasting treats.

Grandma Mowers blew out her eggs before we dyed them. Nothing ever goes to waster at her house. So it’s too damn bad if that empty shell is tricky to maneuver in the tea cups of dye (yes, you’ll have to hold it under the surface) — and so what if the dye has to drip and drain from the hole while you balance in for full minutes so you don’t turn the other colors. Those eggs will be breakfast for all your cousins.

No one ever spoke this. It was gentle and understood. Grandma survived the Depression, and she’s darling.

Grandpa was the sweetest.
“Miss him so much it aches.”
He’d give me these little cans of orange or pineapple juice with a pull-off seal. The juice was weird and tinny, but I developed a taste for it because it was the taste of hanging out with Grandpa.

“I know exactly what you mean.”

“We probably shouldn’t talk too much about the rage.” hehehe

“Oh, yes. A cabin in the woods DOES sound fantastic.”

These are our words, our stories. They are connecting us in new ways. This is story-sharing. It means letting my story also belong to you.

(writing group 3.3.13, DE, JG, CAW, ET)