Anika’s Pick of the Week August

 Hey everyone

Today I want to talk to you about passion.  Normal everyday passion.  I guess it’s the ONE THING you would choose to save other than yourselves, family and animals.  What do you think about and what would you get?  

This wasn’t actually what hit me, but I was listening to two lady commentators who were talking about the Olympics and the PASSION that each Olympian has to have for their craft and suddenly in my head I thought  Writing IS my passion.  I kind of looked at the room (I was alone) and thought “No, I was right.  Writing is my passion.”

And do you know?  Listening to others trying to decode what makes one an Olympian is quite a unique set of skills.  To be honest with you – I think you either are or are not (in some ways).  Can I tell you something?  It’s like working at any instrument and being able to learn the notes and the currents etc of the particular piece you are playing/composing and people will FEEL you love the music when they listen to it.

One of the other things I was considering was walking into a “house” or a “home.”  And they ARE different.  You KNOW the difference when you get through those doors INSTANTLY.  Even when you go and just visit a place you instantly know the difference.

I think the word passion is trying to express the inexpressible, the untouchable, the feeling, the emotion, the unknowing, bewitching, the LOVE even, that you have for that flickering flame and REACH for that again and again and again.  And that whatever you want to do about it is YOUR decision.  Will you follow your passion or not?

TREASURE

I have finally arrived at the place where I can make the reality of it certain.  So strange having reached that place.  And learning my craft and everything needs to move towards me being able to continue to write.