Why I do it

"I realized..early..that the power of writing my words would help me remember the things I'd been lucky enough to experience and to keep them safe within me for a long as I needed it.

It was much later when I realized that those same words would help me let go, help me put one well-lived experience behind me in order to move on to something new and equally important.

The act of writing is.... a way to look, touch, and savor all life's moments while they are happening, to make each of them count and not take any of them for granted.

It is a prayer of sorts, that that continues to help me attain and conquer my life without, in the end, being conquered by it."



- Kate M. Brausen

from Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul


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