A Dream on Pages

Sunday afternoon, I curl up on the couch, a cup of tea and a book for company. M's doing handyman bits and bops around the apartment, so I start a new book while I wait for him to finish.

I'm eager to read the book because it's the completion of a dream, on pages. Leta, the author, had a dream to write her life story and to publish it. How many of us have ever said, "I'll write a book someday" or "That's a story I'm going to put in my book when I write it"? Well, Leta's done just that. Put down all those stories in a book and gone ahead and published it herself.

I'm inspired by one woman's dogged determination to see her dream come true. When mutual friends and acquaintances heard that I was dabbling in writing they told me time and again, "You must speak to Leta". And speak to Leta I did. We got together a year ago to talk about writing and the correspondence writing course Leta did and highly recommended.

It took me a while to think it through, get serious about it, and sign up for the course. And now in the same week in which I have submitted my first assignment, I have Leta's book of memoirs in my hand, "There's No Rehearsal - This is it!". That's no co-incidence. It's an encouragement to continue to put one word down after the next and see where it will go.

I don't have a writing goal or a dream like Leta had. I'm not sure where my writing may take me. But as the title of Leta's book so aptly says, there are no practice runs at life. Lost opportunities are just that - lost. And I don't want to lose the opportunity to hone a craft that may still unearth a dream - a dream that may just show up on some white pages one day.