Isn’t English a wonderful language?\u00a0 So many ways to say the same thing, and so many things the same words can say.<\/p>\n
Does the title of the post mean I have taken up a new line of work and am now assisting others in the creation of polished, compelling applications for a new job?\u00a0 No, it doesn’t mean that at all. It means I have once again resumed editing the second book in my series, Malmaxa. An enormous amount of time has been lost. Why?\u00a0 Well my editor took a turn for the worse in her personal circumstances and proved unable to dedicate her time to editing.\u00a0 It is more important for her to spend her time recovering, it is also more important to me that she heal than refine my work.\u00a0 Perhaps in the future she will edit for me again, I hope so, but only the passage of time will answer that question.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately that leaves me over six months behind in the editing process.\u00a0 Do I regret the loss of that time?\u00a0 I do not.\u00a0 You see, just as time is never gained, it is also never lost.\u00a0 Time simply passes.\u00a0 In the time that has passed, in those “lost” six months, I have not read The Pilgrimage<\/em><\/strong> at all.\u00a0 I now find myself looking on my work with fresh eyes and this is what I see…<\/p>\n Beautiful messages obscured by clumsy words, I see passion and I see pain, I see guilt and disdain, I see love flourish as it is gained.\u00a0 Sometimes I am unable to see at all, for my eyes focus on the eternity scribed into those words so long ago, and sometimes my vision blurs from tears I still find myself unable to shed.<\/p>\n One might think such powerful emotions would drain.\u00a0 They do not.\u00a0 They replenish a well that for many reasons has become depleted.<\/p>\n Emotional energy is like a reservoir, — C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) January 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
that which we expend on others,
others must replenish for us,
or pretty soon, we simply run dry.<\/p>\n