JOURNEYS OF THE HEART
Where to
start, and why?
Thornton Wilder wrote that "true influence over another comes not from a moment's
eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's
thoughts stored up in the eyes."
It is not my intention to influence anyone through this humble web site, but rather
to liberate some of this lifetime's thoughts that have waited restlessly over the
years to express themselves.
But then there's the issue of ability. As William Saroyan has written:
"The foolishness of my writing in comparison with what I wanted to write infuriated
me for years. Greatness, greatness, greatness is what I wanted and insisted upon,
only to notice that everything I wrote was small and miserable. I couldn't understand
it. My soul was great, it was astonishingly great, and yet it was captured in a little,
feeble body and could not get itself free. I had in my soul the greatest truths to
tell but when I came to the work of telling them I couldn't do it, I couldn't find
a starting place...Where could I begin?
I was long years in discovering the secret that it does not matter at all where one
begins, and that is it not necessary for anything one writes to be instantly great,
the important thing is for a man to resign himself to the truth that he is only a
man, and to work..."
So, my friends, welcome to this labor of love. If it touches you, or inspires you,
or speaks to you in any way, my efforts will not have been in vain.
As Montana cowboy author and illustrator Will James said:
Here's a gentle horse for you...climb on and follow me
