On that same note - pun not intended so much as unavoidable - I'm been doing plenty of writing myself and first, let me note this: if you are a grammar fiend and happen to adore reading mangled manuscripts written in a frenzy, let me know. Still trying to redeem the historical novel, because I really think it has promise if it can recover from my merciless infliction of periods.
That wasn't my point though:
What I really wanted to post was just a little piece of a larger poem I wrote. I can't show you the whole thing because I think I might want to try and get it published, maybe - it's significantly different than things I've written before, and I can't for the life of me come up with a title for it, but here it is in it's minimal glory, and hopefully it shares just a bit of life and love and glory with you.
We need just a bit of those things to carry with us every day.
"I wait for you in my dreamson the street corners, in the wishing well andI wait and I dream and I wish of you,only you, and I wait,I wait,I wait only for you becausewhen we meet we’ll be always, forever,together, and somewhere in this world wewill find peace andthe kind of love that moves the mountains andshakes the oceans deep beneath their waves forthe fullness of the glory and beauty and wondercontained in a tiny mustard seed."
Think on these things. There's glory and beauty and wonder all around us, friends. As long as we have eyes to see.