Words can invite you
to step into a pair of moccasins and walk through the woods.
Or help you slip on a
pair of track shoes and sprint to victory.
Words can be the
patent leathers that take you to meet the president.
Or they can weigh
like the moon boot that protects a broken ankle.
Words make stories
that ask writers and readers to leave themselves behind for awhile. Step
out of your skin and into someone else’s. Sometimes you’ll shiver with
fright. Other times your heart will ache with loss. Or dance with joy.
Maybe you’ll walk
away with a bit of understanding of someone else’s life and experiences
that you didn’t have before.
Let the words carry
you away.
Beth Dotson Brown
What I'm reading this month: A Boundless Place by Pamela Stockwell; The Long Petal of the Ocean by Isabel Allende; The Blue Iris by Rachel Stone.