GRACE NOTES

I am a collector of other peoples ideas. I write them down in a book . I am not alone, many people who have this compulsion do a double take when reading something that strikes a responsive chord. The next thing the person realizes, they have copied the words down on the flyleaf of the book, a slip of paper or the edge of the newspaper. We who are collectors have notes that flutter out of books, purses, billfolds, we find odd papers stuck in between recipe cards and telephone numbers. The book in which I record my quotes, poems and pithy retorts is stuffed with words yet to be enter on the blank pages.

I suspect someone reading through my book would be reading my soul and know me better than just reading my blog or talking to me. Thus, I think I will begin to use the middle of the week to share these items I have come to call 'Grace Notes' . Wednesday will be the day to copy out these favorite little thoughts and record them here in my journal.

With a nod to all who write down their thought I will start with the theme of writers

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Every writer should engrave on his/her wrist "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." Somerset Maugham

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Writers Prayer--- I am one

Let me become many

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I have six honest serving men (they taught me all I know)

Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

The Serving Men Kipling

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"Begin at the beginning, the king said gravely, and go till you come to the end, then stop"

Lewis Carroll writing in Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

Until next time.