Research

As I look back on my life, knowing I am very well not where I want to be as a writer, I came to the realization I have in fact been working. I may not have produced pages and pages of writing, but I have been experiencing, absorbing, learning, listening, thinking, lots and lots of thinking. It occurred to me, “Hasn’t all this been research for my future writing?” Maybe I haven’t wasted my talent. Maybe I am right where I need to be. Maybe the way my life has turned out is exactly what I need to be the writer I am meant to be. Maybe, just maybe my research will be the beginnings of something great, extraordinary, sublime, timeless. And maybe, just maybe “monkeys might fly out of my butt!”