Reflecting on Reading and Writing, 2023

    We as humans have to do it. Many of us do it for our jobs. Most of us, if not all of us humans, and even some other animals and plants, benefit or at minimum are affected by it. Harold Bloom valued it and made a living from reading and writing. I think that he can be wrong about many things, which is my right and privilege. I can be very wrong, too. That is the beauty of life and writing. And reading.

    Reading. Writing. 

    Listening, speaking, and moving, acting and working are all correlated to the vehicles of literature and literacy. But the thing about reading and writing is that it programs us to know and understand things that we normally want to know, repeat, remember, and follow through with.

    Document. Record. Analyze. Improve. Substantiate. Secure. Ensure. All of these things are key to our existence. Laws, regulations, life creeds, plans, goals, objectives, after-action reviews and post-operation analysis, fantasies, fictions, histories, reports. Scriptures, journals. Essays, novels, historical tomes and statistical ledgers and journals. We now have the Internet and its subsidiaries, which also promote verbal and audio conversations and dialogs, talking and listening. Writing goes along with all of it.

    What year of your life did you read the most? What year of your life did you write the most?

    We all think. Some of us think about smaller things, or bigger things, and then we can write.

    What do think and write about?

    This blog post is now a part of it. I could say, or write, a bit more, or a lot more.

    But I wanted to write, and read, some other things. Like a book that I started in 2021. Going on two years now, it would be good to finish it and publish it.

    Be up there with David Levithan.  Or Steve Hely. We all have things to say. Some of it should be more heard and seen than others.