#freeman's

George Nakashima, “Conoid” bench, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1968,

English walnut, American black walnut, hickory,

H: 31, L: 97 1/2, W: 36 in.

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

“I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death.”

After I wrote her first draft death in late August, I drove weeping to a friend’s to swim, got pulled over by a policeman for crossing a yellow line: What’s wrong? he asked. I looked at his child-like face and thought, I’ll never explain the 45-year gap. “My mother just died,” I said. Compassion crossed his face. He gave me a warning.

I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death, October 3, but I did not. On October 4, I wept again. On October 5, I was close. On October 6, my friends gave up on me.

On October 7, my stovetop Italian coffee pot melted—I’d forgotten the water—then the glass beaker of the French press flew off the counter and shattered on the floor, and then, as I was finally finishing, a gunshot pop from the kitchen: I got there in time to watch a second egg explode from the boiled-out saucepan. And the wind rose up and blew smoke down the chimney, smoke so dense I couldn’t see the keyboard, a revolting stench remaining in my clothes until I wash them.

Morgan Freeman's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://mindsuccess.net/success/morgan-freemans-top-10-rules-for-success/