Where The Heck Are My Words?

 


                                                             


Today I have the blessing of spending time with two of my grandchildren, Lilly and Elijah. It’s nap time for them and a little break for me, Grammy. I haven’t written in a while, so I thought their nap time would be a perfect opportunity. I sat down at the kitchen table, opened my IPad, got my warm tea beside me, a bay window with beautiful greenery right outside and my grand-dog Stitch lying by my feet. What a perfect setting for writing, right? Wrong, the words just aren’t flowing today. It’s not that I don’t want to write, I do. I feel the stories inside me, wanting to come out. The thoughts, the emotions, the little moments I have experienced that made me think “I need to remember this and use it as a blog topic, I won’t forget”, yet I have. I think sometimes I have so much on my mind, my thoughts are just a bunch of chaos dancing in my head and they get stuck somewhere between my brain and my fingers and they can’t seem to find the right letters on the keyboard to form the words.

Some days writing feels like breathing, the words just pour out of me and other days it’s like nailing jello to a tree. Today seems to be a jello kind of day, it’s there for a moment, but it won’t stick. It gets frustrating and I realize every one who enjoys writing, gets writer’s block from time to time, but I get impatient. I want the release of my words to show up on my screen instead of just swirling around in my head. It’s like having a stomachache because of a build up of gas and not being able to burp.

I guess this attempt of writing about not being able to write, will have to do for today. At least I tried. Sometimes writing is less about the words and more about trying. I mean writing about not writing is technically writing, right?

Writer’s block: 1, Me: 0


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