You wouldn’t know simply by looking
That something devoured
Their soul
Living
A blackened existence
Entombed in distorted fantasy
Whispered tales from a victimizer
Sickly twisted and forged
To hurt
They lie
Not because they have to
But because they take pleasure in it
©2022 Sheryl Sonnenberg
This is my seventh year of blogging and I thought it might be fun to throw in something a little different. The House (working title) when completed, will be my second full length novel.
I’ve sent the first five chapters off to my editor for her usual hard-hitting critique of plot, character, and structure. Did you know that the hard work begins after you’ve written the manuscript?
It’s (almost always) about the water, but sometimes it’s about the words too.
While exploring, we came across a church that had been in existence for well over a century. I couldn’t help but think how the words spoken here might have nourished the souls of these early pioneers settling in an unforgiving landscape.
I photograph and I write—two different yet connected mediums. Images take me on a visual journey of my world, while written words resonate deeply on the inside.
Both can be lies.
From the scale, perspective, and editing of a photograph, to the idea that words can be a crafted illusion of what we want to be true—that writing them doesn’t make them so.
We need to be better stewards of the truth and guard against swallowing the bitterness of others.
It’s a crazy world out there, one where isolation and fear has created a few monsters, and neither photographs nor words tell the whole story. A little extra kindness never hurts while the truth unfolds.
It might, she said, can we go?
Anywhere with you, my love.
walk away [wôk] [əˈwā]
a strategy for no-win situations
I enjoy conversations about human nature but have learned to curb my expectation that people can be something other than what they are. I love the words associated with this type of conversation.
intrinsic · fallible · flawed · inherent · nurture · behaviorism · causation · rational · biological · mimetic · potential · innate · entitled · narcissistic · gaslit · envious · manipulate · cognitive · dissonance · hoovering
They roll off your tongue but linger in the fetid air…
it's (almost always) about the water... 