Over the past few months since I added my favorite authors on my Facebook page, Jewell’s of Thought; new posts have shown up. It has been really fun, encouraging and rather amusing to know some of my favorite writers have similar thoughts. Some of their photos are absolutely awesome.
Most of my writing has been done in my college dorms or at home and mostly one library since college which was OCU. Although I am not picky, I do need some background noise and usually that’s not permitted in libraries. Either some music or a movie running in the background or some news clips. I can be a bit of a news junkie so if I have cable news on I would have to force myself to turn it off at different times rather than having it on 24 hours and seven days a week nonstop.
Right now as I write I am watching “The Biltmore Christmas” movie. The library has come into view once again… and what a place to write and read! Only it’s a museum and hotel for certainly an exorbitant price. For the history though it would probably be well worth it for the amazing scenery and the full experience. I would need a second computer or television and radio to make that work for my perfect writing area.
Bookshelves of the written word floor to ceiling are inspiring. How many of our ancestors were inspired from books including the Bible? Our very Country was inspired because most people were taught by the Bible and then they would read whatever books they could find. Books were much harder to come by then unlike now. I think of General Nathaneal Greene and how he read military strategy and became one of the most critical of the Commanders in the American Revolutionary War.
Not to forget one of the most read pamphlets of that Era “Common Sense.” Written by Thomas Paine another iconic figure of this infant stage of America yet most fervent patriotic and fiery time in our history. Will my words bring about such fervency from this Era of American Patriots? Only time will tell. As much as I would like to say having my perfectly trimmed room or library or even nook doesn’t matter as much as listening to the burden God puts on my heart to write about and write well about.
The Biltmore Mansion is a sad story. A man who built this gorgeous home, but having no one to truly share it with… like a family. Until he Met Edith of course, but he was a bachelor when he constructed the mansion. General Greene and Patrick Henry made immense contributions to the war effort in different ways. What joy or knowledge does a library this extravagant share with only one man… and how do we beckon to a piece of paper such eloquent words to drive colonies to fight for freedom?
A perfect space is different spaces to me at different times. I have written different articles from my favorite lazy boy chair or the dinner table no where near my library. Yet some of these articles have garnered amazing statistics… although not nearly anywhere near the record numbers the Bible and ‘Common Sense’ have garnered over the centuries. It is my silent prayer that my articles would inspire others wherever they are composed.
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