If there is anything that I have done to improve my lot in life it would be reading and writing. My mom birthed in me a love for reading. She often read to us as children and those are very powerful and vivid memories. I love to read and read constantly. I will read between 20-50 books a year including the Bible clear through. I read 4 or 5 books at a time all contributing to different parts of my life, spiritual, educational, and recreational. I begin and end every day reading. I did nothing to be this way. My mom did it. The writing part I can take some credit for. When I was 14 a new show came on TV, The Waltons, about a family during the depression. The oldest son, John Boy, loved to write, sitting at his upstairs window at night and writing about his family. I felt a kinship with this family thinking it reminded me much of my own family. It was also meaningful to me that John Boy was always recording his thoughts which I decided to do myself. At 14 I began to journal and I have written almost every day since. These two things have elevated my life experiences in so many ways. Given me a great amount of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Encouraged me to go see many of the places I have read about. Placed my foot upon many a trail of beauty, art making, meaningful experiences, and mountain ranges, meadows, streams, and byways. In the process, it has also left a trail of my life behind me. Many of my journals are filled with the sinful walk of a wayward son but most are the story of a half-wit becoming a whole with his God.
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