Lee Boy Benson

In order for me to write, a practice I began when I was 14*, I must be living in a harmony of gratefulness and a quaking of the intensity of meaning of living.  This can come in quite peace, overwhelming ecstasy, bitter sorrow, or grief, a fellowship of being in relationship with the Ancient of Days, the earth and cosmos, my lover, my memories, and other people.  

It can also stop coming when I am in conflict, under stress based on circumstances, or suffering some great illness or pain.  

I write every day.  If I can’t, I try to discover why I can’t and try to write about that.  This is why I am writing this.  

* I began writing at 14 when I started watching the television show, The Waltons.  The main character was John Boy Walton, and he wrote every evening sitting at his window.  He wrote about his family and where he lived because he found great meaning in these.  I thought I felt the same, and so I began to write.  I have never stopped writing every day.