{"id":1873,"date":"2015-04-03T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2015-04-04T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:07:35","slug":"2015-ojai-wordfest-literary-legend-award-on-saturday-april-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"2015 Ojai WordFest \u201cLiterary Legend\u201d award on Saturday April 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_735\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/screenwriter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-735\" class=\"size-full wp-image-735\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/screenwriter.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Ann Jones\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Ann Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just notified that I will be given the 2015 Ojai WordFest \u201cLiterary Legend\u201d award on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_458794744\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday April 25th<\/span><\/span>. It&#8217;s always a surprise when awards come to honor the writing or teaching. And a moment of doubt arises &#8220;Do I really deserve this award?&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t matter how many awards come, the surprise and momentary doubt is a given.<\/p>\n<p>This one is especially sweet as it is given by writers and in my home territory. So on Sat, April 25, I will be attending a lovely lunch with some familiar faces around me. No airplane rides or airport delays!<\/p>\n<p>I always feel a pang when in introducing me, they relate my body of work and honors as I am older now so\u00a0it begins to sound a bit like an obituary. I want to add, &#8220;It&#8217;s not over yet! There&#8217;s still more to come!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, when writers spend most of their waking hours alone at a desk toiling at self-expression which can be wonderful if all consuming, it is a celebration of the years spent in what we deign to refer to as a dharma or a calling.<\/p>\n<p>Last evening I was invited to give a talk on my life as a writer. Later many in the audience said how inspiring it was and that they felt encouraged in their own literary pursuits. What I didn&#8217;t say to them was be careful what you wish for. A life dedicated to self-expression can be a Pandora&#8217;s Box, releasing past ghosts and demons. And yet, I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. The plain truth is I feel most myself when writing and most &#8216;lost&#8217; when between projects, Moses wandering in the desert waiting for God&#8217;s instruction.<\/p>\n<p>How important it is to follow that inner calling no matter the challenges that inevitably come with the territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Unknown.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1038\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Unknown.png\" alt=\"New Paradigm Digest Logo\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just notified that I will be given the 2015 Ojai WordFest \u201cLiterary Legend\u201d award on Saturday April 25th. It&#8217;s always a surprise when awards come to honor the writing or teaching. And a moment of doubt arises &#8220;Do I really deserve this award?&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t matter how many awards come, the surprise and momentary doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}