EXERCISE: Rub Two Quotations Together

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Original posting 3 September 2008

. . . and call me when you have a fire?

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." William Dement

"Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey." Cynthia Ozick

Dreaming lets us be quietly insane at night, while writing allows us that same freedom in our daily life. Daydreams, imagination, role playing -- being more than we can be any other way. What's writing to you?

Now add in that notion of awesome unfamiliarity. At the end of a journey, when we look around, even the well-worn bits and pieces of our home often seem brand-new and surprising. And maybe sometimes in the morning, after we've been insane all night?

Go ahead. How does that license for freedom and the awesome unfamiliarity at journey's end go together?

Write?