Life Under the Mango Tree…

Life Under a Mango Tree…Vietnam

Years ago, I decided to explore my artistic side. There were parts of it I loved other sides that were challenging. I enjoy free-flow sketching...the light touch of the pencil without expectation. When I attempted to learn technical drawings, I nearly lost the plot. Those lines!

I went thru several years of artistic discovery and then stopped. Art block took over, and I could never get it back. It has been a few years since I picked up a canvas to make a mess, but I know someday when the time is right when the spirit moves...I will go back.

I wander back to draft blog posts frequently and hope to finish them one day. The titles seem surreal today as I sit in the woods of our country home in New Hampshire. If there were a time to write them, it would be now. A few drafts waiting in the wings: Our Life Under the Mango Tree, Time Traveling Through Myanmar, Whispering Stones in Cambodia, Finding Winston Churchill in Morocco and A Country Gardener Travels to England. I have lived in some places and traveled to others, taking photos to bring stories to life.

Travel writing takes time and deliberation, a skill I never quite mastered. Writing about a travel experience is as much a journey as the experience itself. I travel over and over in my photos. I remember each scene vividly. Yet, I often wonder if once the words are out, will that mean the journey is over? Is the anticipation of revisiting and writing about the experience more fun than writing about it? Do I risk the memories fading once I have put them into words? Or, I am just coming up with lots of excuses.

I am using this 30-day writing series during June to find the answers. I may not have discovered them yet, but I enjoy the process!

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