Piper Nuelle

Well hello there my lovelies, how you doing this fine day? I’m doing great myself, see one of my beloved children went on a school trip, one where I didn’t get to see them for days (Which if I’m honest felt like a lifetime) I’m a proud Mumma bear, helicopter mum, or what ever you want to call it and I find it terribly heard to let my children go. (I do have my reasons for being so over protective, as a family life has not treated us too well and it has made me an over emotional, anxiety induced wreckage of a mother but I do try my best to be the best Mumma I can) But today is a happy day, because my little one arrived home, safe and sound and bouncing with stories to tell me about their time away… But what made me smile, what made my day extra special was that my dearest little one… Got me a gift!!!

The gift was a simple one but actually holds so much thought behind it… A pencil!

To many it might not seem like much, but to me, it being a pencil is so special… It means she has acknowledged me as a writer, an author and someone for her to be proud of. And I know this because she told me so.

Apparently at the trip and in the gift shop my little baby girl scoured the shelves for something meaningful for both me and her dad. For her dad she found a cute little rubber duck (He collects ducks, a weird tradition and collection that started from him having a stint in hospital and me and my girls trying to find a present that was… Different and unexpected) but for me she had wanted to buy me a special pen… A pen I could treasure and write my stories with to my hearts content, but alas, she said that there was no pens to be sold only pencils, so she decided on a pretty silver one to match my home office.

The fact that she had put her little heart and soul into such a gift for me was heart warming and had me close to tears. It meant so much to me. Plus, she said I deserved it for being brave and giving up my job that is… Basically ruining my mental health and making me ill, and to finally giving my writing my 100% full focus and attention and to finally see my writing as not just a hobby, but as my job. Plus it means I get to work from home and be there more for my babies when they need me more. It’s a win, win all around.

But I also feel that the pencil has a mighty power!

The pencil is a simple design of wood and lead and sometimes with the added addition of a rubber to erase mistakes which… I don’t like to brag but my pencil possesses one such rubbery addition. It’s simple design makes it powerful, with a few strokes you can create art, the art of drawing or for me… The art of words! The power to wield a pencil like a magic wand and create stories is amazing and for some authors such as myself, writing began in childhood and with the mighty pencil. But unlike a pen, a pencil stroke can be erased if the words you write don’t ring true or don’t make sense. You can rub them out and start again, creating a new blank canvas to create on.

With a pencil there is also the power to decide how hard you want to push as to what lines you can create. Push down hard and you get harsher more pronounced lines that read loud and proud. Push more gently and you get a mere whisper of a word, just an echo of a thought that is there one moment and gone the next.

I love writing with both pen and pencil, but there is something special about writing with a pencil, it feels more… Grounding. I guess because the wood is natural, something that comes from mother nature and when you write with it you can feel life and the world flow at your finger tips. A natural magic, a creative magic. Plus another added bonus, pencils are better for the environment in the sense that you sharpen them until they become a mere stub. Yes maybe not the best in the fact that it uses wood and say from trees etc, but at least with a pencil its a little less plastic we are binning once the ink runs out, because when the lead runs out, the pencil is gone!

The pencil is mightier than the sword, it wields a mighty power and can create or destroy worlds… All hail the pencil!!!

As you can tell I’m over the moon with my gift, it has made me happy, made me want to write even though it is nearly midnight as I tap away at my PC keyboard, but it genuinely made my day.

So I’m off to go to sleep… Or maybe scribble down a few notes for a story idea before I dash off to the land of nod. Hope you enjoyed my blog post? And speak soon.

Xo Piper Xo