To Write

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing and the kind life-giving and often life-saving role it plays for me. Here’s what’s on my screen saver–I read it somewhere in a book and I can’t remember where now–but it seems to sum up how I feel a lot.

“I drift around my rooms and write, to shadows, thinking, as I always did, that writing only can make peace, can right and heal that which a life made sordid.”