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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Reflections


Happy New Year to you and yours.  Did you make any resolutions this year?  I do make goals for myself every year.  One of those is to be more consistent in my blog, so here is the first of many to come in 2019!

The past few weeks have been a time of great reflection for me.  There have been holidays, anniversaries both happy and sad, and reunions that have been years in the making.  Anyone who I have gathered with has me thinking about the past, present, and future.

Now, anyone who knows me personally knows I am a very reflective individual.  It shows easily on my face.  Some are patient to see what I contribute to a conversation.  I remember one professor in  college who saw that reflective look on my face and asked my opinion on a topic.  I know she did not expect my candid response with an example to back my observation.  I believe she was more cautious as the course went on.

Reflections are a good source of writing material.  It was actually the title of the self-published poetry collection I made for my family a few decades ago.  My reflections of adolescence, young adulthood, love and loss filled the pages and allowed my loved ones to understand the joys and pain I could not tell them in words.

My creative works of late has been less of reflections and more of an intellectual pursuit.  Landmarks of the countries written for kids, a day in the life for seniors, even the start of historical fiction based on stories of today's octogenarians, they fall short on my reflections.  Maybe that should be another goal on my list of New Year's resolutions.

I look in the mirror 
And what do I see?
The reflection of a writer
Emerging from me.

Her eyes have seen sadness
Yet shine with such wonder;
Her words are soft-spoken,
But her pen is like thunder.

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