deanna hershiser » happiness http://deannahershiser.com capturing a story's glimmer Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:59:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 happy portion http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/02/happy-portion/ http://deannahershiser.com/2010/02/02/happy-portion/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:13:12 +0000 Deanna http://deannahershiser.com/?p=1227 Continue reading →]]> For a few years I tried to write prettier – to add flourishes that would astound. I guess I didn’t think I would run into that purple prose problem, because I had tended at first to write so sparsely.

Surely, I thought, I could only strengthen my prose by gazing often into gilded, trickled springs or at the azure sky with sadness.

Well, nope.

My problem was trying to flow my sentences like brilliance, and brilliant I am not. Not forced in that way. I love ideas and situations and the intricacies of people, relationships.

I love finding ways to express what I love, but I dig hard in the finding. I’m not a concert pianist, high-strung athlete, or dazzling, tortured artist. In this I can despair at times. But I am also learning to rejoice. I’m a little critter – a part of me has always known it’s so.

I’m seeing I can strengthen what I do have. In the idea-excavating of every day, I scrape a happy portion all my own.

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