I love the smell of paper when it is being ironed.
The first day my Mom did the paper ironing I noticed it. I was busy doing some other activity and I thought it would be a good way to keep her busy and get a job done that I didn't really feel like doing. Once she got that smell going, I knew I had to try ironing paper, too.
Now when I need a moment away from the keyboard, when I need some meditative, reflective time, I turn on the iron and I grab a stack of ever-present wrinkly dyed or painted paper and I start the process.
The iron meets the first piece of paper and the smell begins, gently, to rise toward me.
I continue, reading snatches of words as I flatten the
paper, make it more useable for me in my many word-related art projects.
I ponder whether others have used this same practice. I wonder if other word-love artists also iron paper. I am curious if the scent makes them wobbly as if drunk with a slight word-horniness scrambled into the mix.
Ironing pages makes me insatiable for the pencil or the keyboard.
Oh, to use words as these.
Oh, to hold a thesaurus – an actual page from the thesaurus book and claim it sacred. I do, oh, how I do. As a final moment of paper-ironing-prayer, I press to pages of Silas Marner, slightly blushing with petal pink rit dye, slightly gold around the edges still, slightly dirty from the Bakersfield dust as it sat outside under unrelenting sun to dry after being lifted from the dye word bath.
I discover then my writing fingers cannot wait any longer, they start to tingle and twitch. I notice my first finger is swelling almost unnoticeably to the unobservant. They must meet the keyboard for a word tryst, perhaps if they are lucky, a letter-word-sentence-paragraph orgy.
I unplug the iron, I move away and note the heady scent is still in the air.
I put my ever widening ass in the chair.
I write.
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
This is my thirteenth post (of 31!) for the October Ultimate Blog Challenge.
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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