“She
spoke almost in a whisper, “I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. I
didn’t know a sentence could be so full.
--Where
the Crawdads Sing by Darlia Owens (Kya, 14, reading her first sentence.)
Oh
my, what a beautiful book, beautiful story, beautiful writer. I was enthralled.
Oh
Hi,
I
got carried away. I’m still recovering from that book.
I
figure you probably love books or writing or blogging. Is that how you found
me?
How
did you by the way?
However
you got here, by train, boat or ox cart, I’m happy to see you.
You
come, I’ll post, that’s the way it works, so I’ll take 40 lashes with a wet
noodle for not posting.
I’ve
been concentrating on https://travelswithjo.com,
and https://come-on-baby-light-my-fire.com (7 steps to living the life we want.)
But,
here you are and here I am, Thank you for not giving up on me.
Are
you afraid of public speaking?
Me
too.
Why
is that?
#Eric
Edmeades said that “Not one person was born afraid of public speaking.”
If
a baby was afraid to speaking up she would never be fed, or not often enough,
and what about diaper changes?
We’re
okay speaking with one other person. We can size them up, see how they respond
to our words, adjust as time goes on. But give us a group and we freeze.
Well,
we can’t read an entire group, and a mob can hurt us. Think of those times in
school, if you wrote got that multiplication problem you were writing on the
chalkboard wrong, you were laughed at or teased.
And
what would happen if the teacher asked a question and you were staring out the
window—probably it was more interesting out there than what was going on in the
classroom. But the teacher asked a question and 10 smart-ass kids raised their
hands, but who did she call on?
You.
I
guess embarrassment was supposed to make you a better student.
This was after many heart that children should be seen and not heard.
Hum.
We’re
grown now, but we still carry some of that old garbage from childhood, and it
makes us afraid.
But
listen folks, you writers, you creatives.
To be creative you must be
willing to make a fool of yourself.
Let’s
party!
Joyce
