Invitation

I offer the contents of this blog--written with heart and thought and the best insights I could muster at the time--as my story. 

If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, what I most want to have done is sought meaning in my life today.

When I hear the stories of others, it helps me make sense of my own story.

I have been asked why I am writing The Anne Show Blog.

I could quote a billion famous writers now and the message would be the same.  Writers have no choice.  They must write.  I am a writer.

And as a writer, I have things I can't talk about.  I write them.

You're invited to The Anne Show.  As I wrote in About The Anne Show, the curtains are open.

If you find anything in my story disagreeable, I would like to offer what I have heard in support group meetings:  "Please take what you like and leave the rest."

If anything in my story helps you with your story, I will have passed on the gift others have given to me.

Comments

[Robert Giles]

I hate the TV reporter sticking a microphone in the face of a grieving, tearful person after some tragedy and asking "How do you feel?"
There are tears because they cannot verbalize all of their grief.
You said "...and as a writer, I have things I can't talk about. I write them." Maybe most art is this same way. Maybe the core is communication, a special union, any kind of union, with others. I have heard from one of each of dancers, painters, singers, and sculptors the same thing; they act out what they cannot verbalize.
Would that I could comprehend and act on all of the alternative words...even the written ones.