Muchness…
First I want to apologize for the font size. (Hey that rhymes!) I have absolutely no idea how to change it. I can change the type of font, but not the size. I think it might be time to read more of “WordPress for Dummies” but it’s under a lot of cooking magazines (I made a chicken pot pie with walnut crust! Delish!) and I couldn’t be bothered to dig it out.
Muchness … I adore that word. It’s from Alice in Wonderland, of course. And we had just purchased the movie as I’ve seen it three times, so we had to buy it. The scene where the Mad Hatter is talking to Alice, telling her that she has lost ‘much of her muchness’.
It’s so hard to describe ‘muchness’. It’s not bravery, it’s not silliness, it’s not gumption. Well, not quite.
It’s … it’s…
For me, muchness is very personal.
It took muchness to travel to Guelph to a conference I knew nothing about, to talk to writers, publishers and agents I never heard of, to sell my book – nonaggressively. (is that a word?) It took gumption to sit down with Andy Meisenheimer and dazzle him with my humour.
It took muchness to marry my soul mate. Not love.
It took muchness to sell our beautiful home that Danny had built for us, so we could move into a small, crappy house we were renting so I could be a stay-at-home mom.
Where is your muchness? What have you done that is ‘muchworthy’?
