Well . . . One of my most laconic
friends emailed me, and predictably his email was short. "Do you blog? If
so, can you send me a link? If not, will you start blogging?" That was all he wrote.
I, of course, saw this as a sign from God to blog ;) Let me explain. This friend hardly speaks. Really. We belong to the same book club, where he rarely offers any of his opinions though he is full of them. He's a word miser. A stingy non-verbalizer. Oh, and there's that time when he was struck dumb by the Holy Spirit and couldn't speak for months. Therefore, you can understand why when he sent that email, I thought hard and long over his suggestion. I had to decide whether his handful of words were the crumbs of a bored mind or the manifestation of a "spirited" soul. Granted, that though more often than not, this friend's ramblings would fall in the former category, I had to decide that his words to me were the kind of pearls spoken by a spirit-filled-Balaam's donkey ;)
I, of course, saw this as a sign from God to blog ;) Let me explain. This friend hardly speaks. Really. We belong to the same book club, where he rarely offers any of his opinions though he is full of them. He's a word miser. A stingy non-verbalizer. Oh, and there's that time when he was struck dumb by the Holy Spirit and couldn't speak for months. Therefore, you can understand why when he sent that email, I thought hard and long over his suggestion. I had to decide whether his handful of words were the crumbs of a bored mind or the manifestation of a "spirited" soul. Granted, that though more often than not, this friend's ramblings would fall in the former category, I had to decide that his words to me were the kind of pearls spoken by a spirit-filled-Balaam's donkey ;)
A few days later, when I saw him at a
wedding, I asked him what inspired him to send that email. He said, he
was bored and wanted to read something, anything, even trash. So, there
you have it, my suspicions confirmed.
I thought I was your muse?
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