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Ironically, two days later tragedy struck when a classmate died in a car crash. My book helped me and assisted me in helping others cope with the loss.
On my eighteenth birthday, the day I consider to be the happiest and most perfect day in my life, I purchased a blank hardcover book from Shakti, my favorite State Street store, and began transferring the materials from "softcover" to "hardcover" just after I went off to college. I wasn't to write in the book again for nearly five years, but I did refer to it often throughout college, and I even loaned it to someone: my now husband.
In the summer of 1992, I was under great duress. My husband and I moved to Milwaukee where I had a difficult time finding a decent job. The one job I did find for a while was working for a very verbally abusive man in a print shop. I started writing in Inspiration again because I needed the inner strength and support network it offered me back in early 1987.
Since that time, I have shared some of the writings with others whom
I see have a need for that same kind of moral support. Sometimes I do
this anonymously. Inspiration contains writings that vary from popular
songs
and poems in our culture and history to songs written by a close
friend,
Casey Day, to my own personal poetry that I've written throughout the
years.
This book also reaffirms my belief in a God as is signified by the
passage
written on the opening leaf:
Once, when I was little, a friend asked me, "Do you know what moves the clouds?" "No," I replied. "My mom told me it's the power of God." And I was awestruck. |
-L. |