A Spark

The main thing is the spark and you cant make the spark happen. You can only be there when it does.
What is talent but being at the right place at the right time.
You can develop skill but that is not the spark.
You can develop discipline and that also is not the spark.
The spark comes from somewhere else outside of you.
And it comes through you.
The East Village was a spark.
It was just an idea that snowballed into a special place that I have not been able to replicate again.
My husband and I lived in the East Side of Tacoma where it was sort of scary.
To overcome that I decided to write a newsletter to send to my immediate neighbors in three blocks. So about 100 papers. I just talked about what was on my mind and asked people to write back and talk to me about what they were thinking and who they were.
Before I knew it the East Village was born and we had not only a newsletter but a Poetry club , a Film Club and a creativity group. We were just neighbors but we meshed together into a big thing. We painted our front doors and had a contest that was covered in the newspaper. WE were always in the newspaper for something.
We had signs made that the city put on the streets to denote where the East Village was.
It was like a force that was a miracle. We would have street parties that were incredible. We had live bands. We had east village tee shirts made.
We were a dream. I remember walking around the neighborhood passing out the newsletter and thinking that this was the only thing I ever did in my life that mattered.
People moved away and before you knew it the East Village lost its band of followers.
But it did happen. It really did occur.
LIfe is like that, you think something will never end because it is so great and then it is gone.
I don’t think I could ever do that again. It was a special thing .. It was a spark.

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