The first assignment in my Literary Hybrid class at last year’s Iowa Summer Writing Festival was to write a list that responds to the question, “What do you want to say?”
I wrote down favorite product instructions (and, yes, they really are product instructions):
For best results use joy.
Let go before you think you should.
And then Isabelle Allende’s comment that experience is what you get right after you need it.
Which led to . . .
I’m approaching 60—the age, not the speed limit—and it’s making me think. More like churn. About my life. And what it means to be alive. And what it means to be authentic.
Even if I live to 106, like my great grandfather.
Or 99, like my grandmother.
Or 83, like my mother.
For best results use joy.
Let go before you think you should.
Experience is something you get right after you need it.
That’s what I want to say today.
What do you want to say today?
Writing Shed 
Today I’m with John Cage:
I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is music.
Cheers!
–JA
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Go Jim. A nice Cage to be in.
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These are wonderful! I especially love let go before you think you should. It applies to… pretty much everything in my life.
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Oh… what do I want to say today? I’m SOOOO glad you’ve decided to “get serious” about blogging!
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Judy,
Thank you for inspiring me to do so!
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My “plan” for life doesn’t even matter.
I want to live care-free not care-full.
Catharsis is a way to free your mind, body and soul, find yours and do it, or not.
Call your Mother, you’ll feel better, and make her day.
A life lived alone can be peaceful.
🙂
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And that is why you are goddess of everything.
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