2/24/15 RMB Pay Dirt
Dear Rita May Brown,
Today I took a break from work and left the building for lunch.
My breaks are rare these days. Business is good, almost too good. I’m learning
I need to literally “take” a break once in a while, because it will not ever be
a good time for a break and there won’t be a break in the work load, just more
work, until late at night sometimes.
As I sat to a healthy salad, part of trying to re-lose I-won’t-tell-you-how-many
of the pounds I put back on of the 60 I lost, I opened Pay Dirt for the last
time. Today in the midst of crazy busy-ness, I enjoyed the last chapter of
Harry, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker in their 4th mystery together.
Like gathering with friends for coffee, I was transported
into their world, allowed to escape from my own, and returned to my desk a
calmer, more content soul.
This is what amazes me about writing. Shortly before it’s
publication in 1995, you sat with pen in hand and crafted this story that went
to press and became the book I held today. Words written twenty years ago,
helped me find peace in today’s moments.
“If you could have any super power, what would it be?”, a
young student asked recently.
“To write better. I think writing is a legitimate super
power because anyone who has ever changed the world for the better has done so
through words or through another’s telling of their story. Words are
intrinsically linked to the process of making our world a better place.”
What I overlooked in that response, is that writing can do
more than bettering our world and mankind. It can carry comfort from decade to
decade, person to person, touching moments with a smile, a surprise ending or
an insight. Writing is a super power because it can do grand things, and
amazingly, it can also do minor things in grand ways.
Up, up and away,
Loraine
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