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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Let your wheels catch fire from their own motion"

Welcome to the personal web domain of Poet and Author Phillip L. Harrison. 

Writers and Poets, Musicians and Lyricists, all have a single shared interest; which is to reach their audience.  Anyone who will listen to their words, their music is as much a poet or musician themselves as if they were the ones who composed the very piece they are listening to.  The desire to enjoy any form of art, is the reason that art and artists exist, and it is our hope to inspire the listener, the reader, to also create their own "music" for their lives.  We are all in the band together and we are all in the audience together.  People need people in their lives to have a meaningful existence.  The words we speak to each other, the thoughts we convey are the waters in which we swim, we must try to keep them enjoyable. 

I have been blessed with many  great people in my world.  They have and are contributing daily to the successes that I am enjoying as a writer. I started life out with some difficulties, and am only now being able to sort through my old notes to salvage the gems of poetry from those experiences.  The experiences both good and not so good, have made me who I am, determined, perseverant, loving and above all poetic. 

Everything happens for a reason, every moment and every action, has its beginning tied to an outcome.  Our thoughts and feelings are linked to those we are closest too, and theirs to ours.  If we can step back and simply watch our lives moving for a few minutes, we would see the general path in which we wish to travel.  I am thankful to be able to have the perspective I have, to also be able to see some of the paths others may wish to travel.  We are after all merely pilgrims on a great journey.  Though we don't often feel how important others may be to us in our lives, the fact that they are in our lives speaks volumes about who we are and how we got to where we are, and where we are going.

I consider myself fortunate to have been able to keep an innocent quality from my youth.  It is way too easy for us, as adults to suspect everything and everyone around us.  To assume others are more than they appear, detracts from the human condition, and most of my really favourite topics involve working with the life stories of others.  If I put "my own spin" on their lives, it becomes something other than the thing it was meant to become.  People fascinate me, I am constantly watching others as their lives unfold some small story before me, and I often feel privileged to have witnessed it.  I feel its important as writers to maintain a childlike quality of ourselves so that we can appreciate each story for its own merit. I enjoy being able to view life through the eyes I have, to see each day as a new opportunity to explore and uncover how "I feel about things".  It is a 'worthy journey' if you can draw a beautiful map for those who may follow in your  foot steps, but it is still their journey. It is my hope that you will step with me for a while onto my path and enjoy the things I have experienced through my writing. Grab a coffee and join me in my thoughts.

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