Writing, for me, is how I make sense of the world and explore my feelings about what I witness and experience be that through poetry, short fiction or essays. Though writing may be my personal therapy (I also happen to enjoy the hard work) or a better way to use my retirement than shopping, cleaning windows and watching tv, there is as little value in writing an essay, a poem or a story, if no one ever reads it, as there is in composing a song that's never sung or a painting a picture no one ever sees. The real value of what I write is for the reader to judge. And if my my writing resonates, stimulates, even incites, then I won't have wasted my time, or yours. If what I write means something to you, that will mean much more to me.
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