Visualize

Visualization is everything to writing in my opinion. Connecting with the reader or the listener’s imagination is the element that makes us want to read or listen in the first place. If I have been able to do that, connect with you, then that makes me happy. The rest of the world will have to catch up as the story continues…

Good writers look for a connection with feelings of love, hope, and sometimes despair that everyone feels. To read is to struggle with them everything involved with the human element. To over analyze and think way too much is the goal. Is that true, have I hit a nerve yet?

Most folks typically live and think on the surface level which is what is required for basic survival, but how many actually try to go deeper? Watching television reality shows and reading tabloid magazines are good examples of surface level thinking. Unless maybe you are trying to figure out the meaning of Adam Sandler's last movie, or why Bruce had a sex change on a deeper more personal level.

I try to mix it up in my writing, this piece is a good example of surface level writing, but most of the time my mind and writing are a couple of fathoms below the surface digging around where most sane people choose not to go. I don't say anything, because I might be trying to figure out the situation that I am in, the people that I am with, the color on the walls, what to say next, or any number of things like how did my beer get hot so fast.

Am I there yet? I didn't do anything except write a few words so far. I bet you saw the beer sitting there and maybe Adam Sandler's face?

Visualize

You are sitting on your back porch overlooking the water enjoying a cool drink on a warm summer evening. All of sudden you notice in the south east that the sky is turning an ugly shade of gray and the clouds are all swirling in a huge circle coming from the ocean. It's also high tide and the water level is rising.

If you don't leave in time you will be stranded. The roads flood and you cannot drive and get to safety on higher ground (which is a long way away with a lot of people headed in the same direction). You will have to ride out the storm and hope it doesn't send you to the bottom of the sea. Are you with me, do you see the storm?

Visualize

I used to have a television in every room. I do not have any now. I seem to do more reading, writing, and working without it as a distraction. I suppose that’s why I’m sitting here writing this now. See me not watching TV or seeing the storm. I think a good radio will have to do…picture this one, a black rectangular box with a handle and two knobs. See it? Bet you can almost hear it. What do I need a TV for... with words, and a crazy ass imagination.

Anyway, the little guy that lives in the radio (see him he's waving) will tell me when its time to leave, unless he's already left, or the powers out, or the batteries are dead, or his boss back at the radio station is already gone and just told him to play pre-recorded stuff, or I am under water and didn't realize it because I was up here on the 2nd floor typing away...

Visualize…we are all connected

 
Thank you for reading.

Visualize...No Hurricane

Take care and stay safe.

Visualize...little people in radios? Some of you are asking what's a radio?

Visualize...

All thinking the same thing at the same time...Much Love and Peace

Robert

2015