Comments on: it is all a part of the story https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/1663/ Permission, Granted Sat, 20 Jun 2015 07:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: 10 Truths Of The Writers Soul - {PEACE.LOVE.FREE} https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/1663/#comment-156801 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:49:21 +0000 https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/?p=1663#comment-156801 […] by birth and by destiny and by intention.  Not by choice. If we never scratched another word on a coffee shop napkin, this would not change.  A writer is not someone who does.  A writer is someone who is.  Denial […]

]]> By: Jeanette Bursey LeBlanc https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/1663/#comment-60374 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:24:47 +0000 https://www.jeanetteleblanc.com/?p=1663#comment-60374 "The dark red lipstick mark on the perfect white coffee mug holds an entire story. So does the breeze from the open door behind me. The mortar layered between the bricks to my right was laid a half century ago or more, by hands that held babies and made love to strangers and hurt people so badly they did not recover. And the way the sunlight is making her hair glow like a halo as she turns to laugh and decides to spin in circles like the freedom found in the center of the spiral. Right there. That moment. It could hold an entire novel.

These stories all swirl in the air around me, mingling with my own, becoming more along the way. I draw my sweater around me and shiver – as much from the possibility inherent in the blank page before me as from the chilly air. My coffee has cooled. My ears are filled with a song that makes me think of new worlds and ancient love. I am awake. I am paying attention.
It is time to begin."

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