Removing the Writers Block by Maryann Scheufele

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Dear Cyber Readership,

The economy may be still falling apart but we know that it won’t for long because we live in the United States of America, home of the brave, land of the free. Use your talents, I say.Good morning, I am glad to write again after many months of wondering why I was not writing. As I look at what I have been through to get here, I realize that my life has been full of changes. Maybe our new President has had something to do with that, after change was the significant message of the most recent Democrat Campaign. Somehow the change has been painful for many people. I myself was unable to write, shocked into the loss of a job, and then my husbands. Searching for work has taken far more of an effort than working at a full time job. Dealing with two members of one household searching for work has been daunting to say the least. Why is it that people do not talk about what they are going through, the hardships they are experiencing during the year 2009 changes in the United States economy? I for one know that the burden is very great and that discussions are limited due to the tremendous effort being put into resolving problems daily. Also, the outcome is ever mysterious of each and every step through the process of achieving the goal of survival. Consequently, an individual needs to reach into their innermost personal beliefs to see what they are made of and survive through instinct, which is always a step by step revealation of sorts. Maybe now that I am writing again, I have learned how it is that I am surviving. What is it that I have overcome to be able to write at this time? Remember, afterall, it was I who expressed the desire to become a writer one day at a few of the very most important times in my life: when I was first married and living in the beautiful Green Mountains on a crystal clear spring fed lake in Vermont – maybe I somehow wanted to express that beauty; When I first experienced the joys of being the mother of active toddlers – I know I wanted to capture those moments forever; when I was in graduate school – and that’s all I have to say about that. Now I emerge from a most difficult period in life – find myself in an empty nest and went through a period of joblessness of dual spouses – ouch! My husband found or shall I say we found work for my husband – he is earning the pay check – yae. We have seen the best and the worst in each other and learned that we are mostly the best and that part shone through brightest. We have seen encouragement work far greated than discouragement. We have seen that loving supportive people, namely our family, can add so much by just being there for us either through words over the phone, a quick, email, thank you face book for all the laughs, and having a quiet confidence in absolutely knowing that somehow we would come through this and be more than OK so we always stood with our heads held up – well almost always. We have a great belief in each other, we thank God our family has always had great belief in us and we hear them express that believe in ourselves eventually. I can only emphasize that we have had to believe in ourselves, use our talents, use our instincts, be patient, be longsuffering. Know that we are all we have. As I looked into my own beliefs I know I always thought a lot of my Country – and anyone who lives in this country of the United States of America ought to refer to this country as their country – my husbands great great grandmother had to sign a paper stating she would never return to Germany in order to leave to come to this country in 1885 – that is what I call brave and I have a story to publish called A Brave Woman from Gottenheim that I authored while I was in graduate school. I have learned that certain things need organizing of placing in order wether they be thoughts in the mind or things in the physical surroundings. Spiritually speaking, thoughts and surroundings have a certain order they are meant to be in. As a writer I have been blocked for awhile because I have not been able to make sense of what was happening in my economic world at a time when I fully expected work would be there for me and was not. I have had to organize my home for awhile, sort through the things that my children all left behind as they went off on their own life’s journeys. I have taken time to reminisce about all of the wonderful times we had together when my family all lived at home, and learn to look forward to Christmases and Thanksgivings together. I know that a family is an ever present support group no matter where they are located, and what a wonderful Blessing that is. As I sit here writing about how I am writing I know that my husband is quite happy in his career, and that is I guess what enables me to write again. Problems insurmountable have been solved. Economic solutions resolve.

Your Friend,

Maryann ScheufeleAnza Books

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