According to the Chinese calendar, I was born in the year of the Ram.
 | I try not to believe in horoscopes, but when they call me artistic and shy, they're hard to deny. So when I ran into this two-sentence summary of my life, a "yes" fired off in my mind. Because for sure, my good life "puzzles" me--at every turn, all the time. |
So why did I pause to snap a photo of this Chinese zodiac line in the immigrant history section of my local county history museum while chaperoning a 2nd grade field trip?
...Because it spoke to me.
...Because that "puzzling" space it mentions--that place of confusion and dismay and curiosity and wonder--is what fuels my writing. It's a place of imagined lives, imagined motivations, and imagined outcomes.
...Because I don't write what I know. I write what I wonder about. And this horoscope seems to have me figured out.
...Because it spoke to me.
...Because that "puzzling" space it mentions--that place of confusion and dismay and curiosity and wonder--is what fuels my writing. It's a place of imagined lives, imagined motivations, and imagined outcomes.
...Because I don't write what I know. I write what I wonder about. And this horoscope seems to have me figured out.
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