Okay, my sister is the worst.
She’s mean, older, and meaner than everyone.
Not really, she’s a writer in her own fashion, and has given me journals as far back as I can remember. She dedicates each journal with something meaningful that I always look back on for inspiration and love when I am filling its pages.
She, and my brother-in-law, Kyle, have given me two amazing nephews and one beautiful niece. (No joke, their names are Ronan, Ryak, and Teyla. If you get the reference, you’re my favorite.)
Their marriage is something beautiful and wonderful,and despite everything their family has gone through, they inspire our whole family that love is as powerful as any atomic bomb. (See what I did there? Shameless plug.) (Laugh, DAMMIT!)
In case you all don’t get the reference, as we grew up, she would sleep like the dead. I would have to wait to open Christmas presents every year until she woke up… but she was a stone. Hence, the non-connective reference. She slept as if a gorgon had turned her into stone.
Now, no more of me, and some of her.
P.S.- The photo is of her and my nephew… He’s so adorable!
Hello internet peeps, Gorgon here!
I will say this is my first time EVER letting anyone read what I have written, feel honored. (Yes, Naomi and Mom I know you sneak in ‘lil bits’ when I am not around and have left my notebooks open to go to the bathroom. Rude.)
I will try to keep this to the 400-word limit, well there went some words…
Anyways, my brother here, the writer,has been the ever-so-brave man in exploring this world of published writing first, (although in fairness our father technically was published before my brother, just saying…) He is brave. He has the time. He doesn’t have kids… LOL *wink *wink *hint *hint I need more nephews and nieces!
I admire my brother and I am proud of him! (Here is written proof!) He has always had that amazing imagination that made worlds and lived there for a time! That is what a writer does: they create a new world, with new people, yes, often with character traits of people we know or have met or, perhaps, are purely made up, but it becomes so real to the writerthat they can’t help but explain the situations, worlds, problems that come up in these made up places in our heads. It is so real in our minds that it can’t help but spill out onto pieces of scrap paper, notebooks, computers, or they hide in our heads until we get a headache!
Jonathan has so beautifully put this world together and allows us in to meet these people, to see this world that he has created. It is so much so that it took me a while to get through the book! I got so emotionally invested in these people from the first page that I had to take a time-out to remember, they are not real, they are only made up characters! That’s what a great writer does.
I remember the times as kids when my brother would build Lego creations and I got the idea, or maybe he did, to create a backdrop and ground and put his Lego creation on it and take pictures with my semi-new 35mm camera with a flash! We took the pictures, a whole half a day task to make a background with limited crafting supplies, and then staged it just right to get the picture right without getting the wall behind the backdrop, since I didn’t make it big enough! I remember we had a great time doing it, but we never developed the pictures! I remember feeling excited and honored to be let into his world, his imagination!
His books are that, a wonderful glimpse into this world that he has created! A fun, thrilling adventure with these people that I am sure he considers intimate friends at this point!
Also, this time we don’t have to remember to develop the film!
I hope you enjoy reading The Time of Tears!
Gorgon out!
(She writes like I do. Too much, too late, and too long.) 🙂
Jonathan Dominguez 