WRITING ON THE RUN -- AT ANY AGE
By Tim Bellows

I find that the more I age, the more insight I have into how life works - and how poetry works (that being my
big-time avocation).  So don't we owe it to others coming along the path of life to sprinkle some wisdom around?
Whatever we may have to share?

And really, it's great fun.  We're in charge on the page, and getting the knack of catching ideas as they zing into
us is so freeing.  It lifts the whole day, opening us to more creative possibilities and a certain agility of thought in all
departments of life.

Well . . . by our attitudes we create our world.  So what's your attitude toward advancing your writing as the years
tick by?

As an attitude helper, may I be so bold as to suggest listening to Mozart's piano concertos as you write?  Alfred Brendel and Ivan Moravec are two of the great masters of piano -- and Mozart pieces. Gorgeous, heart-deep, divine music!  It can only help lift your life.

Finally, the music we expose ourselves to -- at 6 or 60 -- makes the  cathedral where we live:

"Thus, by little and little, his spirit expanded in harmony with the cathedral; there he lived, there he slept; scarcely
ever leaving it, and, being perpetually subject to its mysterious influence, he came at last to resemble it. . . ."  (From The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Chapter III.)

Let me close with this quote.  I relate it to aging, realizing more about love, and the joy of writing:

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.  Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
--W.  A.  Mozart.


BIO:
Tim Bellows is a poet, writer, and teacher -- devoted to wildland and inner travels.  Tim has taught college writing
for over fourteen years.  He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has seen publication of poems in a variety of journals - and in A Racing Up the Sky (Eclectic Press), Wild Stars (Starry Puddle Press), and Desert Wood
(University of Nevada Press).

*** Contact Tim at tpb45@sbcglobal.net (or through timbellows.com where his book and selected poems are available).


SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:

What are your favorite writing attitude helpers?