How about you,
Mom? How was your day?
The dinner is on and so is the conversation about the events of the day. We pass around questions and answers along with serving dishes from one person to the next.
It was pretty
good. I went to a meeting…
What kind of meeting?
It was a writer-meets-editor meeting…
The collective groan that interrupted my sentence is punctuated
by,
Oh NO! The dreamer
meets the dream-CRUSHER!
The experience of our family fully confirms the bitter Dreamers vs Crushers stereotype. Every
day a battle erupts or another between the right-brainers and the lefties. The creatives
and the realists. The dreamers and the
dream crushers. Sometimes it’s an all-out war raging under our bobbling roof.
Nobody seems to notice that in this war both sides play the
part of the half-wits.
They look at me as if I just produced a flying pig belting
out Let it Go inside a winter wonderland of the Frozen over hell.
A LIKE
relationship between a writer and an editor??? Impossible!
She suggested that we
do this workbook together…see where it takes us...
A workbook?!! But, you
don’t do workbooks!
You would think I just sold out my soul to the devil by trampling upon yet another time-honored
family stereotype. (Although I have to admit here that I still cringe from the fill-in-the-blanks,
right-answer-left-answer type of learning tools. )
 |
Well, it’s not a TYPICAL
workbook. I proceed slowly.
One must carefully defend their seemingly cowardly compromise.
It’s called…, I pause savoring the marvel which placed these two unexpected
bed-fellows - the writer and the editor, on the same crumpled up page…
The book is called …The Artist's Way.
No comments:
Post a Comment