Essay block

After describing my self as a writer to a friend,  a writer in the grip of a 10-year writer's block, I was asked the following questions..

 What do you think is the cause for this block, and how do you hope to address it? Or are you resigned to waiting for your muse to wake up and return?

Answer: Hmmm, my version of writers block is not that I cannot write, but that I cannot write the stuff I use to write, or would like to write. I do write every day,  but its mostly on my autobio and my journal. My writing is based, (but not driven by) more upon my emotions than my intellect or reason. I supposed therefore, that depression or anxiety would interere with my inspiration or creativity where my ability to put honest pen to paper.
  My writing, as with other of my individual reflections, is driven by love,sometimes philosophically, or spiritual, sexual or inquiry, and so on.
  Muse is, for me, more verb than noun, and I am not much into astrology.(In such, I am an Aquarian!) If my muse was Polyhymnia perhaps Melpomene has taken her place.


2. If you could accomplish only one thing during the rest of your life, what would it be?
Answer:  Oh boy, I have a life list of goals and dreams I'd like to accomplish. I am loath to say things like "Go snorkeling in the Maldives" or "Have an essay published on the op-ed page of the New York Times"  On the other hand, I am too much of a realist to list "Find a cure for cancer" or "Abolish World Hunger" and so on.
  I have a very strong faith of God's existence.I would like to understand God further and in that, my accomplishment might be viewed as selfish rather than philanthropic. I strongly beleive that values and acts of real accomplishment, are driven by spiritual values than education or circumstances.
  On a more secular and perhaps pragmatic level, my goal might be to become the writer I want to be, and though my writings, help lift ordinary people above the day to day existence of life.
Philanthropic.

3. What do you think are the three best traits you have to offer a partner?

Answer: Love, commitment and an open hand. (Not necesarily in that order.)  I offer a quote from one of my own articles: ""Love and commitment are one. Commitment without love becomes a necessary task, a duty, perhaps, efficient but lacking in warmth and real communication. Love without commitment is too fragile, easily swept away by the weakest attack upon it. It is the commitment to love itself, and thereby in a way,  immortality, that preserves both. Committed love is part of an eternal dialogue between ourselves and immortality.""
 The open hand is a sign and symbol of trust, honesty and friendship.

 Maybe I should change my avocation to "essayist".  Essy block sounds more professional.
(The article written outside of my writers block!! )


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