WELCOME TO MY BLOG

Dear Reader,

Welcome to my Blog, my writing sanctum.  Let me tell you a little something about myself as a writer.

I started writing in the early 1980s, when I was disabled from injuries sustained in a car accident.  In my twenties, married with two small children, my writing started as therapy and then became a way to reach out to other people when I was mostly housebound.  Through the written word, I found my inner self, and sometimes my higher self.  Each completed piece of writing brought a sense of joy and wonder, and the suspicion that sometimes the writing was a gift from a much greater source than this one human being.  There is a sense of energy coursing through me as I write that reminds me of the energy touched in deep meditation.  After discussions with many other writers, I know that most of us just call this energy The Muse.

On this blog, I hope to post some of my poetry as well as stories that have already been published and for which I maintain copyright, and other short pieces I have written and collected.  Be sure to read My Writing Bio.

If you’re reading this post, I sincerely hope that you enjoy my writing, or find something unexpected to think about.  That is all this writer aspires to achieve.

INVOCATION OF THE MUSE

I call forth The Muse, the Guardian of the Word

Let inspiration come to me

And wrap me in its wonder.

Guide me through the cavern of unknowing

To the dawn of enlightenment

That manifests in the written word.

Let me write this wisdom down

That it might become my own

And may I become an emissary

In its sharing.

Let me go forth to write with due diligence

As The Muse serves me

And I, The Muse.

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By Lisa A. Hatton, 2005