A writer without words is like Fox News without lip flapping. I suggest sitting down at your typewriter (or word proccessor) and just begin typing, letting the words flow and worry about meaning later. Most blog writing is done with the brain in neutral. You might be surprised at the kind of meaning that might come out of such an excercise.

I suggest mentally and imaginatively reviewing past trips (automotive, bike, etc.), thinking about details that were dismissed at the time of their happening as unimportant and realizing just how important they were, might have been, or could have been. It is the beauty of the human imagination. Imagination is the thing that turns a drab and dull world into something beautiful and awe-inspiring. It is the task of the writer to make that transition.

I suggest that you are not at a loss for words. You have Websters New Unabridged Dictionary at your fingertips, even on line, like everyone else. I suggest that you are suffering from the same disease that most Americans educated in a failed educational system where too much emphasis is placed on the visual Media and the acquiring of paper credentials as an award for the mastery of that Media and too little emphasis is placed on the development of an active imagination. Look at your world and experiences through differently colored glasses and those drab experiences will exhibit entirely new meaning.

There is more to an education than acquiring the mathematical skill to describe the inner working of nature in its utmost detail in order to build something grand, as an engineer would. That extra something is to look at nature, as a philosopher and a theologian would, who, instead of seeing endless drabness and monotony in infinite detail, sees the beauty of God’s wonderful Creation and its meaning for the destiny of man and his purpose for living. The resources of the writer are as vast as the vastness of an active and striving imagination. It is through the latter that God is seen and understood. This is where the Hebrew, as an unique people, stood out head and shoulders above all their neighbors. They had the unique ability to see the unseen, to understand the unknowable, and to develop a unique relationship with the almighty God from which we all, in later times, have benefited. This is the reason for the enduring quality of the Bible. It was written by imaginative, God-fearing men. It can only be read and studied by other imaginative, God-fearing men seeking the Truth. It cannot be read as I would read a work in analytical chemistry in order to obtain the skill to characterize another complex environmental sample. It cannot be read as an engineer would read a textbook of engineering skills to obtain the knowledge to build a 200 story skyscraper. Instead, it must be read as a prophet sitting in the isolated deserts of Jezreel, looking up into the unknown sky at a vast array of unknown stars, the moon, and the sun, trying to understand what all of this meant to a poor, imaginative Hebrew trying to ek out a living tending his smelly sheep and dressing sycamore trees. It is this imagination that turns all of the drabness and difficulty in the world into something grand and god like. The writer has a huge responsibility as well as a huge albatross hanging around his neck.