I like tinsel because of the pure, innocent, fun it creates. There is no thinking when you’re putting tinsel on a tree. You can gently put it on, throw it, blow it, and even apply it with a leaf blower. That is the simple beauty of it. You don’t need any equipment to have fun with tinsel, but it makes the experience that much more fun.

This can be said about life too, how it doesn’t need complexity. Simplicity can be one of the most enjoyable ways of living.  There is not any need to worry about money, danger, robberies or complex relationships.  Everyone takes living so seriously, authors write books on everything; making money, making friends and making just about everything but your own decisions. That’s what life is about in our world today.  Everything is about maximizing profits, production and wealth. Sometimes it’s best to just sit back and relax. Let the world turn while you sit in the audience. Watch the show. Enjoy the performance of the yet-to-be-paid actors: each one just trying to avoid getting booed offstage. The same thing occurs with writing.  

Every author out there is trying to put on their own show. The hardest thing about writing is trying to put ideas onto paper, using one of the biggest restrictions man has invented. Words. We are limited with words. There are only so many words to choose from. You can try and write them all, starting with A, but eventually, maybe days, even weeks later, you will reach the end of Z. Ideas also have a fence somewhere. The only reason man hasn’t found it yet is we as readers have accepted the repetitions in word usage. For an example, let’s look at an idea overused in the world of Hallmark. Love. The hardest thing about loving someone is finding a way to tell them. You can always go the simple way and use those tired little three words. Some think you can write a complex poem using mathematics to find the right combinations of verbal sounds to sound like music in your head. Others write a moving letter three pages long telling someone silly mushy things like how every time they look into your eyes; they hear music in their soul. But after all this you are still limited to a certain number of words. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, combined to make hundreds of thousands of words. This may seem like a lot, but it is nothing when describing a limitless concept like love.