Mining For Hidden Gems

I always wonder how babies know to instinctively move their bodies to the rhythm of music.   I am also surprised that as soon as a baby starts to dance we don’t immediately start criticizing his footwork.   We do not expect everyone to become accomplished ballerinas or competition ballroom dancers.   We are all expected to get up and respond to the music, have fun and make fools of ourselves.   Dancing is a way to show feelings, express ourselves, however clumsily.   So is writing. If writing is putting our thoughts into words and transcribing them on a permanent surface to preserve, to share and to propagate, then we all have as much right to write as to dance.   We may not all become published authors and go on book tours.   But we all have a right to scribe.   So who gets to be a writer? If you have a thought, you can be a writer.   If you have feelings and opinions you are entitled to your own piece of paper and pencil.   My...