Soar Like an Eagle

As Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith, a sportswriter, put it: "Writing is easy. You just open a vein and bleed."

Writer's block. The writer's bane. Many days are like the flourishing days of spring and summer. The muse, as it is known, is prolific and bubbling and smiles on it's slaves. We bask in her sunshine, hopeful that her favor never ends.

But as trials and adversity give appreciation to the good and happy times in our lives, writer's block works in a similar manner.

It doesn't happen that a writer sits down and the words just flow onto the paper and in a few days we rise from our desk with the completed story in hand our audience waiting with baited anticipation to cheer us on.

Writers struggle to find the correct words so that the reader will know with the heart as well as with the mind, and soul. It doesn't hurt when writers can make a living at their calling. Having written that, we remember that writing is both a calling and a livelihood, for some at least. The pen is mightier than the sword—sometimes.

I would like to leave you, dear reader, with two thoughts. One is noble and one is humorous.

Psalms 45:1 "...A Song of loves. My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

Ecclesiastes 12:12 "And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end...."