Wendy K. Laidlaw

Mythos is imagination and inspiration and the capacity to kind of recreate things.

And that's what we have to be doing now.

But that became a real struggle with me.

And I learned something because, in a sense, I knew it.

I knew it even so throughout the teenage years, I would do strange things like we would hang out in the local tavern.

And that's how we grew up and everything.

But after a certain amount of certain alcohol.

Yeah, yeah.

I would just start to spell poetry.

I mean, spontaneous words would come out.

And people were struck by it.

But no one understood it.

And everybody said, oh, yeah, he does that once in a while.

But it was really trying to find its way into my awareness, the fact that inside was a love of language, but also a connection to language which is not reasonable, logical, or simply that, but is imaginable.

And so I learned something, which is even though that was in me,

And it was in me before I got that mythology book, like you had started.

It was in me as a kid because my mother would tell the neighbors, here's what he said, you know, like him, here's what he said, you know, because I would say things.

But what happens is the gifts are ours and everybody has them.

I don't care.

It's not about having a certain talent or having an IQ.