"SCRIBAL MIND"

by Rev. Dr. CW Smith III

[COLUMN: Bardic Ways]

This is my story.

In my story, I choose to actively participate in life with the awareness that all of us are living out the roles of a particular character. Every day in which we awaken to live out these roles, we are in fact writing our own stories, and it is up to each and every one of us to decide how our story ends, chapter by chapter.

We are both writer and character, entwined in a plot that is seemingly greater than ourselves and yet one in which we have a great degree of control over.

A scribe is that special individual who is able to see the story unfolding in all things, and in turn, able to crystallized them with written words. A particularly good scribe knows that tools such as a proper command over language only contribute to a part of the grand sum of any story.

It is control over ones thoughts stemming from the imagination as well as daily life that the Scribe is successfully able to create alternate realities with a mere pen. Thought precedes action. Thus, the wise scribe masters his thoughts before etching a single stroke of ink upon the scroll because one realizes that life is the scroll on which all deeds and thoughts are recorded and developed from.