"Reading As A Child"
My Parents Tell Me I Could Read as soon as I could talk
maybe, probably sooner, that i was born reading
the school thought i was a genius because i was born able to read books
i remember being three years old, reading.  nobody taught me my abc's
i used to read for the other students my age and help them learn to read
but i was born fluent in reading, and the first time i was asked to write an essay, was
the moment i pencil, I knew somehow that writing essays and stories was
my purpose in life, what i wanted to do with my life, my future, "to be when i grew up"
It never changed.  My parents encouraged my love of reading, which was voracious
because i was talented at understanding and acquiring litererary concepts, vocabulary, etc.
The only thing i could never master was stories- the plot as a time sequence.
I cannot really do a plot with a time sequence, a time lapse. it seems illogical to me.
So I realized when i got out of college in Literature that i was meant to be a Poet.
because poets just write what they are thinking  down on paper.  When I was a child, my parents would take me to Barnes and Noble and get me a sandwich or dessert, a drink, and they would give me about an hour or two twice a month or so, to explore the bookshelves of Banes and noble
our hometown stores, in Greenville and spartanburg!  And my favorite author was Madeliene L'engle
she taught me basic ethics and made me dream.  I was only allowed to get two books per trip to the store, and i was constantly wainting for the next madeliene l'engle book to come out on the shelf.
She was my hero.  In college i wanted to write my senior thesis seminar project about her books, and started reading her adult writings...she was always my favorite.  I read lots of other books, mostly classics, but she wasalways my go-to favorite when i'd had a bad day or was lonely or felt ugly etc.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen!