🌀Reflections from the Spiral: The Writer’s Altar.
Eric’s Corner
Monday-August-11-2025
🌀Reflections from the Spiral: The Writer’s Altar.
There is a particular stillness that comes before we begin.
Hands poised above the keys,
screen humming,
light pooling on the desk like dawn breaking over an altar.
Some might call it focus.
Others might call it ritual.
But I’ve learned to see it as prayer.
We arrive at the page carrying more than words
we carry every ache, every question,
every hope we’ve been too afraid to say aloud.
And here, in this space between thought and expression,
we lay them down.
It isn’t always graceful.
Some days, our offerings are clumsy and half-formed,
sentences stumbling like pilgrims with blistered feet.
Other days, they arrive like revelation
whole, unbroken, singing in their arrival.
But the act is always the same.
We return.
We show up.
We kneel to the strange divinity that is language,
knowing it can heal us,
knowing it can break us open in ways we cannot predict.
Writing is not just the making of stories or the shaping of opinions.
It is communion with something unseen.
It is holding the chalice of human experience
and daring to taste it all
the bitter, the sweet, the fire, the salt.
Through these keys,
through this glowing altar,
we conjure poetry, characters, advice, connection.
We craft laughter and rage, love and betrayal.
We summon ghosts and build futures.
We touch every facet of the human soul
because we are willing to go there,
to sit in the dark with it,
to translate it into form.
And maybe that is the quiet truth of this strange vocation:
we write not because we have all the answers,
but because the altar is waiting,
the candle is lit,
and our hearts are restless until we offer something of ourselves.
So we come back
again and again
to the prayer of the page.
Thank you for turning,
For reading,
For listening,
For spiraling with me,
Eric.
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