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This story started as I sat at the coffee shop on writing days observing people for character development.
Reading over it one day I decided to write a short story based on the characters. I kept it in the form of a journal.
December 6….
Been busy preparing for the
holidays now. Worked very hard on
hiking story, finished it and sent it out to several friends to read. This could be a mistake since these friends
are not writers.
Here I am, back at the coffee shop. Need to clear up my writer’s block. I get scared sometimes – maybe I have no
ideas for stories; or I could have too many.
Maybe this whole crazy notion to be a writer in my retirement years is
just that, a crazy notion. I must want
something out of this part of life.
Trying to write. I have been
exercising to motivate my mind.
Physical activity and the brain must be connected some how, though I
certainly haven’t found the connection out running the track. Keep ‘looking for the words’. Where are
they?
Today’s characters…two old people.
She intensely reads the paper. Dresses for comfort not for style, but is
style important when you are elderly?
Her bulky sweatshirt seems to be the only means of keeping the cold
winter temperatures away. Her stocking
cap sits snuggly on her short thin gray hair.
Maybe no one told her that her hair was pretty. She has an Eleanor Roosevelt look to her. You can see at no time in her life was she a
beauty, but her intense concentration on her newspaper shows a search for
knowledge, for information. She
defiantly does not want to live her life uninformed. To her being ignorant to the facts of the world around her would
be a violation of life.
Her husband approaches the table
after searching the bookstore. He is
also a well-seasoned reader. Odd couple
they are. Even in his advanced years it
can be seen he has always been better looking than her. Society always wonders why is a
good-looking man with such a homely woman?
Question of mankind again: why must
the woman be beautiful? Why do we
question this situation when it exists, homely woman - good looking-man? Look at birds; the peacock is the stunning
bird while the peahen is the drab and plain bird, but look at what she can
produce. The ugly man with the
beautiful woman, good for him they say.
The handsome man with the ugly woman raises the question, what is wrong
with him? Has anyone ever thought some
people may look at the inner soul and not the outer wrapping? Many wonderful people are overlooked just
because they are not beautiful. Shame
on us!....
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Copyright 2013 Eileen A Partak
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