Two years later a friend heard the news that I was in the process of writing a book. She wrote an email and asked: “I am curious, what is your motivation for writing a book?"
I answered her question, and over the next several years I continued to write, not one, but many self-published books.
In 2016, at the age of eighty-one, the answer to a friend's question, asked in 2002, remains the same:
“I write simply because I want to. The desire to write has not disappeared. I love to tell stories, and people like hearing them. Also, I discovered that in the process of writing, more material flows into the open. This experience created a deeper desire to find what remains within me waiting to be written. And, more importantly, it is possible that the stories I tell from my life's experience may help another person in his.”
From an experiment initiated twelve years ago, I discovered that a personal gift was given to me. It is this:
Writing is a form of self-healing therapy.
This is not my gift alone. It is a gift given to anyone who has a desire to write.
Don't give up! Never give up … Keep on writing!
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Written August 19, 2016
To a friend – Joseph