Industry

Pater noster

Every work day I hone my trade of using words to regulate life. I would like to think that, from a pure dictionary perspective, this qualifies me as a writer. But a writer is more than one who makes a living from the artful arrangement of words. A writer is a magician, creator and craftsman rolled into one, capable of bringing words to life and capturing life in words; an impression, a feeling, a person, a moment. The notion of coming of age and rebelling against authority is a theme that perhaps every single male is familiar with. And it is also common that our first figure of authority is none other than our father, the one whom we hope will shape us and yet the one we are subconsciously most likely to challenge. But although we all traipse down the same path each of our story is different; maybe its the way we walk or in this case, run.

There is so much to know and one can only guess. Guess around him. To know him from these stray actions I am told about by those who loved him. And yet, he is still one of those books we long to read whose pages remain uncut. We are still unwise. It is not that he became too complicated but that he had reduced himself to a few things around him and he gave them immense meaning and significance.
~Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje