“My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.”
Pablo Picasso-
Little girls LOVE diaries.They made you feel like you have important things to say,and if you had that little cheap lock, it made you feel like no one in the whole wide world could ever get in(especially if you hid the key in your pillow case).
They made you feel like you were growing up because NO one knew about the crushes except your closest girl buddy and page 2 out of 15,rant and raved about how he smiled,how he hit you and ran,how his eyelashes were long and how he specially asked to borrow your crayon.Diaries are were our ways of letting thoughts hit paper with out running away.
I personally have had
at least 7.Every one different,and with each age and experience,a bit more "interesting"
.EVERY ONE had boys in them,"He's stupid","He's cute","Why is he with her?"...etc.
My sister told me how she recently found her old diary and how she had cursed all of us out in it.
LOL..I've been there.
awww
When we get "older" diaries now become
"Journals" ..they get less cute and more solid colored ,no characters and no more fake metal locks,maybe a nice string to keep it closed,and some couture news cut outs in the border that make you feel
uber cool and crafty. :-).
It's where your most personal thoughts,emotions,prayers concerns,cries for help go.Think about how much writing affects the world,it's intimate,something so sad and scary as a suicide letter holds more emotion than sometimes a spoken paragraph can.Scary?Sometimes misinterpreted upon reading and too shocking to say aloud,writing creates a world where your brain draws pictures with your pen/pencil and then creates the same or similar affect for those who have the privilege of reading it.I just thought about how full the brain must get and if it had a ways of emptying out,what would,or where would it be.Crafty thing this brain of ours is,dangerous too.
I LOVE to write,I LOVE stories ,short stories,modern day and old school parable like stories with meaning and some that just ,make you Laugh out Loud.My most favorite author is Zora Neale
Hurston.I own her collection of short stories.Her writings are so unique,she had a way of capturing the moment and time and bring you there.Plus she writes how her characters spoke,deep southern vernacular with broken words and concoctions that only few can relate to.I LOVE it!
If you're a writer I encourage you to write more.Who cares about titles?If it's what you LOVE you do it!You do it because no talent should go unused and hid in the ground(refer previous post entitled
"25" ) .
NASHVILLE FAIR
But then I got more curious and dug around into my little 3" ACE hardware store nuts and bolts box and found more.....
