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Simple Pleasures

A few nights ago we had our first spring thunderstorm–and the first thunderstorm we’ve had that Bella has been both awake and old enough to really be aware of what was going on.  She was a little freaked out by the whole thing, so we huddled up with her on the couch watching the storm through the living room window and Nathan talked about what thunder and lightening are–or as much as you can talk about it with a two year old, anyway.  And after a bit she started to get excited about it all and would say, “That was a pretty good one!” with each boom of thunder or lightening flash.  We turned out the lamps to see better so that the only light was from the jagged bolts crackling across the sky–and it was a magical time, a perfect time.  One of those times that makes me say to myself, Remember this.

I absolutely love that about being around a toddler all day: the way it makes you slow down, see the whole world through new eyes, take pleasure, joy even, in the simplest of everyday happenings.

So I could draw some neat parallel about how my girl’s example made holding the first finished copy of Twilight of Avalon I’ve seen all the sweeter today.  But honestly?  I’m not sure I would have needed any coaching from Bella at all to just sit and rub my fingers over the cover and turn the pages and breathe in that wonderful new book smell.

Words I wrote.  In print.  With a cover and a spine and an ISBN and my picture on the back.

I don’t think I even need to tell myself to remember that moment.

So any aspiring authors out there–anyone who’s sending out queries and facing the inevitable rejection after rejection–don’t give up.  You’ll get there in the end–and when you do, I promise you’ll say, It was all worth it!

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