RE: On love and for loss

[bigtom13]

I am lucky in that I have never taken any kind of creative writing class or Googled "how to write well",

I haven't either. I have read Steven King's "On Writing" and Strunk and White's "Elements of Style" is dog eared and tattered :)

The Prophet has probably had more impact on my life than any other volume. I have spent much time reading and contemplating it.

I'm not going to go into my love life or life love but will say that I agree with Tennyson completely.

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[tarazkp]

Perhaps I should have read more - but then, would I lose myself in the frameworks?

The Prophet has probably had more impact on my life than any other volume. I have spent much time reading and contemplating it.

On Love and On Children were the highlights that stuck to me.

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

I think this has had an affect on me as a parent.

[bigtom13]

I think (opinion) those are some of the most profound words ever written.

The fact that they have had an affect on you as a parent says lots of really good things.

[tarazkp]

I think (opinion) those are some of the most profound words ever written.

There is more truth in art than most give credit. While people think they are informed by looking at charts and numbers, they are moved by the stories they hold.

[tarazkp]

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