TheBanyanTree: Monday Morning Mendations

[B Drummond]

   A crisis came into my life yesterday.  

   It involved one of my children.

   It made me confront some things that we both have neglected to talk openly 
about, to confute frankly, in short, to speak man-to-man about for some time.

   Trouble is how do you really talk man-to-man with a boy?  I could talk 
man-to-boy, that was for certain, but in the past I wasn't really certain 
that it WAS m2m.  Yes, I could say, "Son, this is man-to-man."  But from the 
saying to the doing is often a space as wide as the universe.

   One can say, "Yes", one can say, "I agree", one can say, "I understand" and 
you know in your heart that those words just fell from lips to the ground to 
immediately suffer corruption and decay.

   Conflict is the essence/ the heart of a great story.  Just read any decent 
book on creative writing, you'll find that rule there.  

   This "story" had a great heart, a true essence that "brought both parties 
into the story", brought them into the story so that they were not "aware" of 
their surroundings.

   And , speaking of stories, don't we all crave a happy ending to most?

   This story, like many I have in my heart, doesn't have an ending yet.

   But I assure you,  we're working on it. 


   bd
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