Pollie Esther

Budding author. Troubled past. Foggy Future with rays of light breaking through the mist.
Forced to write as a catharsis- or burst.
Filled with love and good-will, yet bound by fear and remembrance of things past........
stranded like Plato in the cave..... but I will emerge into the daylight: this lifetime!
Looking to (cough) write my memoirs...monumental task...appreciate any insights-on how to get started.
music and animal lover ( and protector)..... avid history buff, love it all but most knowledge is in the era of carta magna forward...........when traveling, these historic sites are a priority...also, any dark historic events confound me: the Donner Party tragedy being one of them..... if not for that shortcut....

Some my favorite authors include:
Mark Twain! " Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. "
Friedrich Nietzsche -"Man is the cruelest animal."
Camus
George Bernard Shaw
Ambrose Bierce "Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. "
Emily Bronte ( wuthering fan, yes.)
Longfellow( especially the Childrens Hour, one of my all time favorite poems...)
Coledrige ( the Ancient Mariner)
Charles Dickens-It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Albert Schweitzer
Sarah Waters
Douglas Adams ( Dirk Gently)
Grant Naylor
Voltaire- (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
and-A.A. Milne. I belive in the tao of Pooh, for certain.