July 2014

You should never make things up with the intent to deceive, but you could/should make it up to reveal the truth. Two writers we will never forget Nadine Gordimer 1923 – 2014 and Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1927 – 2014 died this year. Both recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Gordimer 1991 – Marquez 1982) they showed us truth in many incarnations. The truth of why we write, of what we write, and how we write it. A grateful recipient of epiphany, Gordimer’s courage and insight showed me the essence of truth. Marquez’s imagination and fingerprints taught me about choice. Through the fictional worlds they create we can more closely align ourselves with reality.  Read More »