Jimmy glowed and soared on psilocybin\nby the light of the sunset as he mulled over\nTom’s response to the phrase Soul Kitchen. He dug it. It was pithy,\ndead right, and communicated a secret alphabet. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe Tom had the goods. Not as a damn\nwriter! Not one of those writers who practice empathy on the page but\nrarely or never in real life. Too many of those phonies, as Holden\nmight have called them. No, maybe Tom had the goods to break on\nthrough and actually help people and animals and watersheds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jimmy typed:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The cupboard is bare. So start\nstocking it with art, music, poetry, love, friendship and succor.\nYes, I am a chipmunk that knows what succor means.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jimmy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom read the message in the morning\nwith his coffee and Calvados. He was somewhat disappointed. He\nthought he might receive some writing advice. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unbeknownst to him, he had. Some\nwriters never realize the best advice to become a writer has nothing\nto do with writing. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ink pad is at your disposal. I left\na sketch pad out. I’ll start stocking the cupboard today. Going to\nhelp an old man in the park transplant his tomatoes to get more sun.\nThen driving two meth miscreants to their probation meeting. Fixing\nup a couple of abandoned bikes, too, and donating them to the animal\nthrift store. Is that the kind of stocking you mean? <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, that was\nexactly the kind of stocking Jimmy meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in short order,\nTom would start writing about the stocking and keep on stocking, and\nhe would begin to find a voice as writer, because sometimes when you\nstock the cupboard of the soul kitchen, you talk to the people who\nneed the goods and hear their stories, stories that need to be heard\nbut no one is telling. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy glowed and soared on psilocybin by the light of the sunset as he mulled over Tom’s response to the phrase Soul Kitchen. He dug it. It was pithy, dead right, and communicated a secret alphabet. Maybe Tom had the goods. Not as a damn writer! Not one of those writers who practice empathy on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}