Saturday, October 27, 2018

Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Our whole family is so excited that our older daughter is having her novel published!  I know just how much effort and time it takes to get writing out in the world, and we're so proud of her.  Though I have not read it, the blurb sounds exciting and complex and deep.  I can't wait to read it.  Anything worth doing takes time.  Yes, there are the techies who become millionaires overnight, but for most of humanity it takes, as the Brad Pitt character says in "World War Z", us to GUT UP.  My husband's PhD took many years and a previous attempt at grad school.  Writing requires years of lonely struggle, art is often beating your head against a wall, and teaching is all the nights awake worrying over that kid you can't seem to reach.  My family perseveres.  We aren't flashes in the pan, we're a slow cooked meal.  And after all, isn't it the process that teaches us what we need to learn, more than the product?  What we learn is to believe in ourselves, and pursue our passions.  Against all odds.  Gut up, indeed.


1 comment:

  1. I'm glad the entire family, including the siblings, is behind this effort! My favorite motto still comes from The Little Engine That Could: "I think I can, I think I can."

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