Alie: An Introduction

I've been a writer all my life. 

This is the one thing you know is true. It's one of the only things about myself that I am certain of and - if you know me - you know I am not certain of anything. So far, I am an unverified philosopher, book skimmer, people reader, chameleon, and queen of my own crochet kingdom. All of those are maybes, but of being a writer I am sure. 

Artists have a contract with two entities. First, with their art, second with their audience. To make is to live, and without the making an artist isn't really living. I know this from experience. I can survive on bread and water, but without these words life feels void of meaning. It is in the words - slippery and shifty, visceral and tangible - that I find my reason for being. Yet, it is not enough to keep them to myself. I have to share them; without sharing them, without showing them to the world, I feel their beauty wasted. You see, the words aren’t really mine at all, but I am theirs, a vehicle for their travels and a chauffeur who delivers them; they have a mind of their own and a destination predetermined.

I hope that you will find yourself here, or if not all of you at least some small part. I am a writer, and I am discovering who and what else I am everyday. I do that here, and wish to share that process of becoming with you. Here, among these words, I hope you will find something beautiful, something true, something that makes something good in your small corner of the world. I hope that, among these words you find a community or, at least in me, a companion. The road can be dark, and is often full of terrors, but we need not go at it alone. The stories we share are sign posts that scream, “we have been here before and we survived it!” Listen and heed them, my friend.

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In summary, if I am sure of anything it is this: I am a writer. 

If I am sure of anything else, it is that I send you these words wrapped in love.

Sincerely, 

Auntie Alie