Writing is easy for me in the company of six-year-old granddaughter who at age 5 was writing a story or two a day. When visiting together, one of our favorite activities is to get out the paper and color pens to document our fun in homemade storybooks, complete with illustrations. It’s not surprising that granddaughter is a gifted writer as she comes from a long line of relatives who have that same interest. Her father, her aunt, and multiple other family members, both professionally and also just for fun, share their knowledge or experience through the printed word.Inspiration for writing may be an inherited trait. My interest was sparked by watching granddaughter’s father enjoying leisure time on vacation at the keyboard with his blog. But the challenge was really issued during the late-night closing grand finale water and light show over Disneyland. At the end of three days with family soaking up the magic, the happiness, the creative imaginings of exhibits and rides and cast of characters, I heard the challenge addressed to me in the words of Walt Disney, “Always remember, it all began with a mouse.”
Disney’s colorful words with the challenge to remember made it sound so simple to be able to unleash the creative juices and bring ideas into reality. That’s when the decision was made. I must try this. I must discover the joy within that is shared by so many who communicate ideas, opinions, information and experience through their writing. The desire has been percolating inside of me ever since. It has been a constant pondering in my heart, “I must find my mouse.”
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| Thank You, I See It |
Then one day the light bulb went on. Something clicked as I looked to the right of my desk top computer keyboard, and and saw it. There it was, and there it still sits. There is my mouse. We all have one, either literally or figuratively speaking. We all have a mouse, or something, that will spark the creative juices that when primed, will spring forth an aspect of life from deeper within our souls. A way of connecting thoughts and feelings, expressions and ideas in the process of growth.
Thank you granddaughter, granddaughters father, all my relations, a man named Disney and Mickey the mouse. Thank you for guiding me toward the beginning.
