Jacki Carr

On my weekly writing club call this past week, we explored a conversation with the Yoruban Goddess, Oshun and how she is often depicted with a honey pot and a golden mirror. So much gold always on and around her as the rivers flow around her. I always open with a story or thoughts to share before unleashing the writing prompts for the day, and I was transferred to a different timeline while speaking this past week.

“Do you ever burn out on reading books?”, he asked me in an Adirondack chair on the front porch. “I really don’t, reading is a ritual for me, it is how I relax” I responded in my hanging egg chair that floats in the corner. I took a moment to think more on this. Reading is how I know myself, expand my overthinking brain into chapters, continue my learning. I did add, “I can burn out on a genre, though. But never books entirely, I am, in a word, obsessed with reading”.

In the land of devices and tech and screens, did you know that when you write something down pen to paper, it goes into your long term memory section of your brain? Physically forming the letters essentially send a signal to your brain saying: this is worth keeping.