Every Soul on Earth

Thanks to Eileen and Kathi who nominated me for the nice blogger award. That was nice!

I started thinking…it’s so important to have a support group when you’re a writer.

At times I've caught myself thinking that I wanted to be a writer so bad that I could’ve made this career happen on my own.

Ugh. How silly.

There is no way I could’ve done it without my husband and parents and brothers and friends and teachers and editors and writing groups and bloggers and the lady behind the counter who hands me a cup of Joe to help fuel my days, among many, many others.

I love this passage in Sy Safransky’s Notebook in the latest edition of The Sun magazine:

"'Independence,' wrote George Bernard Shaw, is a 'middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.' It’s humbling to remember that at practically every moment, someone, somewhere, is working hard on my behalf: a farmer in California is watering vegetables I’ll one day eat; a young man in New York is writing a poem I’ll read, weeping; a woman is finishing her residency in anesthesiology, her eyes perhaps the last eyes I’ll ever see."

So thanks again Eileen and Kathi and so many others. Your encouragement and support means a lot.