How to Lighten Up While You Still Can
A renegade writer and a despondent optimist walked into a body… it is a tumultuous place, but they agreed that peaceful poetry and fantastical fiction cures most ailments.
The soul sits not half full, nor half empty, but rather in a constant calculus equation of pouring and filling. The body carries its inhabitants on the seat of a Harley Davidson in an open-road quest for inspiration in the winding roads of Southwest Colorado.
When the mind is dark, it is dark like a moonless night. And when it is bright, it is bright like a moonless night. Just keep writing, and let the words make their own light. That is all we have got.
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