I'm so glad I came looking for you today - specifically, and so glad THIS piece was at the top of your page.

I loved everything about this because it is SO encouraging! This is exactly how I write...and sometimes I worry that I won't be able to change this.

You've given me permission and reward to embrace this and to keep it as long as it works for me.

Just this morning upon reading another article, I was so moved I had to write. So I did. And it's really shitty - I mean I was bawling, wiping tears, and just typing away. I mean sentence after sentence and as I wrote it I kept thinking: this is all over the damn place! What started as bullets moved into paragraphs and oh then I went on a major tangent.

BUTTT -- I loved every part of it. I got out all these pent-up emotions and thoughts and I released them -- a true dump!!!!

It's sitting in my drafts very proudly and then when I take a stab at working on fixing it: ahhh -- there is lines the grimy, sweaty hard work that takes me a while.

I refuse to rush it - because exactly as you said: finding the pears and capturing something valuable IS the rush and reward. That's where and how I learn.

Bravo Suzanne!!! Excellent piece - I loved it!!!!!