The Barefoot Bride (62 page)
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Authors: Rebecca Paisley
Hurry up and write a bio, they said. We need it to put on the page, include it in the write-up, insert it within this part, that section, send it here, there, and other places. We have to have a description of you, Beckie, they said. We can't just throw your books out there.
But what does an author write in a bio? Hurry, Beckie. Born here, lived there, went to school at this university, married a man X amount of years ago, had 2.5 children (although I don't know where that .5 kid is.) This grandmother said to me, "..." That aunt told me, "..." I did "this" when I was little, and that's when I started to write. What are your hobbies, favorite books, everyday likes, interests, treasured memories, they said I had to answer.
Under outside pressure and self-pushing, I started trying to write this bio well over a year ago. And everything I wrote, I deleted. Because it just wasn't right. There are too many rules about bios. A long list of details readers anticipate, they said. Hurry, Beckie.
But I can't do it that way, the way I'm supposed to. Nothing about me matters. And this is really, REALLY hard for me to write, to find the words to tell you. I think you must forget about everything you believe and is natural to you. For only the few minutes you need to read this, allow all that is realistic and sensible to you to fade away and not reside in your mind anymore.
There's this tiny, not-even-a-whisper space. Wee though it may be, however, its significance swallows up all the many things you "know" to be true. The more guileless you are, the easier you will arrive. Indeed, if you presume, you have already lost its path.
Imagination has no need to take wing in this realm because there is no need for flight where nothing is nailed.
If you allow me, I will take you there. And then you will know me, and I will know you.
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