Inspiration to write come to me in many forms but the best was when I visited my favorite spot in the mountains. It is a little paradise just outside Brag Creek alongside a beaver dam under a stand of white birch.

Sitting there beside that little mountain stream totally lost to the outside world I find an inner peace.

A gentle breeze whispering through the trees; birds singing in the background; water gently rippling…all the beloved sounds of nature filling my head and carrying me into a blissful flight of the imagination. And the words just flow onto the pages of my notebook……words that are the reflections of the beauty that engulfs me in this paradise.

Writing poetry and short stories is my life. Words flowing on pages not from a mechanical doldrums but from the bounds of my beloved nature.

In the next pages I wish to share some of my prized writings. I hope that you get as much enjoyment and meaning from them as I have in living the dreams of Gods natural paradise.

Myrtle McMillen