- Welcome to my blog of random writings! As you have found your way here I hope that you will stay and read a little.
- The purpose of me starting this blog is to mainly start writing and keep up with it. This last year has been quite a year and with it, I have found myself putting pen to paper A LOT trying to work out feeling and ideas.
- A bit of a background: I’ve enjoyed writing during my life and have written a little here and there for various reasons, but this last year I was told it was something I needed to work on because I “have a talent” -as some members of my family have put it. And as I am not one to let a possible talent go by without giving it a chance I’ve kind of been giving it a try. But what really gave me the push for this blog and “publishing” my words for unknown eyes to read, was that the poet in my family passed away very suddenly. My uncle, aside from just being the best guy I’ll probably ever know, was a poet. He just had a way of putting words on paper that opened you up, gave you a better glimpse at him, all while making everything more mysterious and magical. At his funeral his siblings read his poetry- one of the most beautiful and sad things I’ve ever experienced. A couple months after my uncle passed I was thinking about him and all of the sudden wrote two poems honestly out of no where! I know I was inspired to write them and part of me feels like it is now a calling. Like, I need to keep the art alive for my uncle. Maybe that sounds like a silly idea, but I think it is true. Never at any other time in my life have I had so many ideas to write like I do now.
- These writings that will appear on this blog will very, greatly! They will probably range from journal-like entries, poems, essays and hopefully, short stories. I’ve just started college so some may be class assignments others may be my venting or past writings that I want to share. (Please feel free to make spelling and grammar corrections.) And now and then I might just come across some words that just hit home and I’ll share those as well.
To read the poem that started it all click: Dragonfly Wings
Thank you for joining me on this journey,
-MaKenzie.
If you are interested in reading
what I wrote prior to this blog, check out my photography
blog: http://makenziebeck.blogspot.com/ , where I will
continue to write about my
photography experiences and occasionally share my adventures.
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