So much of life is ordinary and commonplace.  We work, play sports, eat, watch TV, and get wrapped up in the events of the day to day, and slowly we forget that those things are just the things people do with their time, not the things people really live for.  And that’s why I love the written word so much.  When I read that amazing poem, or get wrapped up in that beautiful novel, I remember that life is something more than what I have been living, and I’m convinced once again to live my life to the full.  Thoreau once said, “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any absolute and permanent existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.”

That is the feeling I try and capture in my writing, the perception that great and worthy things really do exist in the world to be found, that we ought to fight for them.  I hope when you read the blog, you feel that same way.  And if you’re willing to read one of the novels, I hope the story gives you that indescribable longing to want to live deeper than you did before you read it.  Just click on any of the pictures for a full description.  Thanks so much for visiting.

Ben Mester
San Diego, California