Sometimes I realize I’m here to observe.
Authors…good authors…do little more than observe and document.
Note I don’t claim anything about writing.
Writing? No. Documenting? Yes.
Good authors…the best authors…are retellers of tales they’ve witnessed perhaps too often.
So often they make a lasting impression.
Although I know some lasting impressions only need to occur once to be etched in memory.
Such impressions are etched due to high emotional content.
That emotional content can take many forms: wonder, joy, pain, sorrow, grief, love, …
And sometimes that emotional content takes the form of appreciating what’s around you and realizing, “Yes, this is a good thing.”