Patience and perserverance

The final details are all that is left and then I will have a published book.  I find it ironic that I didn't write a book until after I sustained a TBI. I think it is because I didn't have anything important to say before, or maybe I didn't have the patience to do it.  That is definitely one thing that waking up disabled will do for you - it teaches you patience.  First you must learn to swallow your pride and  ask for help.  Then you must remember to be patient.  When others are taking their time to do something for you, you must learn that it is according to their schedule, not yours.  It can be extremely frustrating, but you will eventually learn patience.  Once you learn patience the world becomes your oyster!  With patience and perserverance any task can be conquered.  This book is the latest example.

Today I attended a meeting at the Carrollton Creative Writers' Club (CCWC).  I haven't attended a meeting in almost a year and I only knew a few of the many in attendance.  This is the one constant in life--that life is always changing.  Many members have published books and moved on to other challenges. New members are working on projects and reading their work for the group to critique. I suppose I was expecting time to freeze for this year. I was expecting everyone to stay the same as I took a year off from the group.

Thank goodness no one did.  I like the fact that life is fluid.  I want life to continue to be interesting, inviting, and invigorating.  Who wants vanilla ice cream over, and over, and over.  I guess I was expecting vanilla ice cream today at the CCWC.  Instead I got rainbow sherbert. You gotta love it! Life is good.

Finishing the Book

My seven-year project is finally complete. Today, I dropped off my book, Head Lights for Dark Roads: Packing Humor and Hope for the Unexpected Trip through Traumatic Brain Injury, to my able editor, Zan Marie Steadham.

I'm just starting the blog, so bear with me as I explore this new world of blogging.