ChrisA

I don't think I could have ever predicted the sustained effect this short essay would have on other writers . . . but here I am, reading these beautiful replies, thinking just what my essay says . . . "I" couldn't have "done it" anymore than "you" Jacquii could have "single-handedly made" the JPic. We are then, as I think my essay states, the vessels of our work. And what I think this implies is that, as writers, more than anything, we need patience. We cannot expect results. The Forms of our creative effort emerge slowly, and we can hardly hasten this organic process, this slow and difficult evolution. With patience, I stand off to the side, not putting my nose in the creative process, but trusting the creative process and my material, trusting that, revision after revesion, the art-object will emerge as an independent entity. The JPic Forum is just that, an independent entity, truly unique. Your "creative womb" Jacquii must have been gestating a long while before something as manifold and astonishing as JPIc could emerge, perhaps JPic was gesting in you creative womb since childhood, who knows when the seeds were laid. All we know is that, suddenly, the Forms emerge as independent entities. We wonder where they came from. We wonder how we "did it". They came from the "creative womb". And we didn't "do anything". Life just unfolds in this mysterious way: "Things just happen."

So thank you Jacquii for making JPic happen. And thank you JPic members who continue to post their outstanding poetry and sincere replies. With the exception of my own website, this is the only website where I show my work, where I feel comfortable to show my work, and where I feel affirmed by the community of writers. Thank you.