Writing Randomly

My Take

DiVoran Lites

I’m retired and I believe in writing randomly. Schedules and deadlines are for people who don’t freak out, block, get nervous over schedules and deadlines. In order to write randomly, I need to have my life in harmony with the Father and with my own needs, which He has promised to meet. For instance, I need time to make coffee in the morning, write in my journal, read something super uplifting (like the Bible), maybe draw a little, pet the cat, and cook an egg with a bit of cheese and butter. The cat likes me to leave the tiniest bite of egg for her, and so I do.

Well, look there, I have already written—in my journal—that counts! Lots of journal entries turn into blogs.

I need time to check Face Book and read my emails. Oh, hey, there’s one I’d love to answer. Oops, I’ve written again.

When I take a walk, I try to have my post-a-note pad and a small pen in my pocket for sketching or jotting down a few words of poetry. There you go, I wrote again.

My car door has a good, molded pocket in which I keep a notebook and sometimes after praise practice and before church, and after I’ve visited a bit, I go out and write for a few minutes.

I don’t do a lot of housework, yard work, or cooking, but I do a little at a time and then I feel like sitting down and where should I sit but at my computer. What shall I do there, oh, I’ve got a couple of projects going—I’ll take a look at those.

One hour until I need to heat supper in the microwave, so why not put in an hour on the book. Yeah. That’s how books get written sometimes. That’s how they get written if you’re a random writer, anyhow, and a random housekeeper, cook, gardener, reader, hobbyist. I say up with randomness. You can do anything a little bit at a time. I have two favorite quotations on that: “By the yard it’s hard, by the inch, it’s a cinch,” and “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Let’s see, is there a scripture as well?. Well how about Ecclesiastes 3:1

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