What's Your Story?

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya Angelou

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. ~ Gloria Naylor

 Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will glorify the hunter. ~ Chinua Achebe

The story we tell becomes the world we live in. ~ Catherine Orenstein

 Remember why you write. ~ James Baldwin

And this from my book, Sister Days: “On the days when my grandmother would tire, her stories used up, her memories dim, I remembered how she would croon to herself, “I’d write a book, but who would read it,” and yet go on. From her, for her, I knew why I wanted to write. But, it was not until I looked into the mirror of memory that I knew what I needed to write that somewhere beyond our Grandmas might smile. Somewhere, our Grandpas would glance upon the docks of our day and look to the horizons their dreams helped paint...”

That’s my story. What’s yours?  And what are you doing for YOU this summer? 

For five inspired days, August 5 – 9, 2019, join me for the “Writers’ Retreat in the Catskills.”  Relax your mind. Renew your spirit. Write your story. Make of your words a song.  Learn more and register here

? Janus Adams 2019 - www.JanusAdams.com