So - this is about writing. I take my lead from Anne Lamott's book, bird by bird, Some Instructions on Writing and Life. She speaks of asking an hypnotist how one rids oneself of all those voices that interfere with an activity, be it writing or reading or cleaning house. He responded that one takes them one by one and deposits them in a glass jar until there is only one left. The glass jar can be a metaphor...but it also promises that one has saved the voices for a rainy day.

I'm beginning the exorcism of voices. A friend asked me to design a book label for a project we were involved in, that of celebrating a third friend's retirement by contributing books to the local library. I came up with the following: