Amelia Cassarini ~ aka: My Granny, My Muse...

I remember...

Whole days spent playing imagination games with my grandmother. I used to call her Granny, but not those days.

No, those days she’d be every character to my heroine. It would start from the time we woke up in the morning and become more elaborate as the day wore on.

We acted out classics like The Princess and the Pea and Granny would be the mean Queen and the chamber maid and the king and the subjects and even the prince. Or perhaps I was Gretel and she was Hansel and the witch. Or, I was Goldie Locks and she, all three bears and every other character we added to their stories.

Sometimes, I’d be a waitress and Granny would be all of my customers, nice and irate...hmmm, guess I can thank her for honing my customer service skills too! LOL.

But, most of all, I thank Granny for opening a world of adventure and excitement for me--A world limited only by my imagination.

It may have taken years for me to find my voice as a writer, but in every word I pen, every adventure I spin, my Granny is there, guiding and encouraging as she did so many years ago.

She may be missed in the physical sense, but she’s never far when I’m plotting and writing my next adventure.

Thank you, Granny.

~ Sandy :-)

PS
I’ve also posted at the Otherworld Diner. Stop on by if you have a moment. I share how I started on the path to writing.

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