If you read my blog, there is one other you should definitely be keeping up with.
^^That, my dear readers, is a website containing the thoughts and adventures of one Bethany Joy Galeotti.
She's a woman I admire tremendously. Actor, wife, mother. Fashionable, Charitable, Funny, honest.
This woman has it all goin on.
To complete this rave here is a recent post of Joy's in which my comment was:
I completely agree! Sometimes I feel like I should've been born before technology took over our lives, or was even intended for that matter. (Then I remember how much I love air conditioning and being treated with respect as a women and I snap out of it.. but that is not the point!)
I too adore writing and the older I get the more I wish people still wrote letters and took time to put thoughts on paper. I may only be 16, but I have that "Damn kids these days!" attitude most days. I can't stand reading on kindles and it breaks my heart that brick and mortar book stores are closing across the country! I don't know about you but I need the physical satisfaction of turning a tangible page to get the feeling that I'm actually reading; The sort of stillness feeling you get when it's rainy and grey and you have an amazing cup of hot whatever-you-like-to-drink while cuddling up with a wool blanket and a wonderful story. That is what I want. Call me old-fashioned, but I love it.
Stories are such powerful things and the way you experience them makes all the difference in the world. It's like a movie with a great plot but an awful director.. it just doesn't do the trick.
I love writing too. I'm known for slipping unexpected letters into friends' jacket pockets when they aren't looking. You could call it nostalgia, but seeing as I'm still just a kid and I'm only growing in to this habit, I blame it more on the fact that I was born in the wrong generation.
Unfortunately (and I won't go too deep in to this) I came down with an illness when I was 9 that has since made it very difficult for my brain&body to function normally. Extreme fatigue and almost ADD-like symptoms have plagued me for 7 years. Im that kid who loves learning, is a teacher's pet, gets the A plus PLUS on every project, and yearns for extra credit work so this has been difficult as you can imagine. The wonderful thing is lately I've been starting to get my brain to focus more which allows me to read! I long for those days of clarity in my brain, though few and far between, that i get to enjoy a book.
Im also very musical so I've tried to jot my thoughts down to see what they might turn in to, but so far - nothing. I use to be rich with songs, but now I can't help but think that this is partly Twitter's fault. I've gotten so good at putting everything I need to in to 140 characters that I've forgotten how to elaborate. And what a shame that is.
I tend to find myself with older friends, and I think part of that is kids my age can;t carry on a conversation, especially in person! then less than 5minutes in they whip out the newest smartphone and all hope for an intellectual conversation is lost.
So excuse my rant about how MY generation has lost the fundamental, purest essence of story telling. All we can do is try to restore it.
Although I have some minor set backs I will continue to read and write like every generation before me and I plan to teach the same to my children someday.
And for the record, I totally know who Doris Day and Cary Grant are.
Keep leading your own path Joy! I'll be happy to follow.
XO Caroline Grace
I hope you enjoyed my ... elderly take on some fundamentals as far as my generation is concerned.
No I did not post this specifically for your enjoyment, but I hope it interests you anyway,
&Yes, whenever I get inspired and end up writing I slap a title on and post it.
I'm odd, but prefer the term eclectic.
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