What if I show up to sing the songs, write the poems, spin the yarns and rhyme the rhymes? What if I told you I’m ready?
What if a thousand story songs welled up in my throat unbidden? What if it’s time they were told?
Can I hold them back when they want to burst forth? And why would I want to hold back? Is it possible finally their time has come, and my time while we’re at it?
What if I show up ready to run the race? Do I have proper shoes and the right attitude? Will I even know what I’m doing? And what if I don’t, is it all that bad? The whole point is whether I’m willing.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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