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The kick-off of the presidential campaign season provides an opportunity to discuss "that vision thing."
Vision might be the modern day equivalent for the word imagination. A writer is, first and foremost, someone with a vivid imagination. Writers possess that vision thing in spades.
The impetus for all motion pictures, corporate web sites, documentary films-you name it-begins with someone who possesses a vision of what could be. He/she sees possibilities. Potential. An internal reality that begs for external expression.
Lacking the vision thing-the writer is like the blind man feeling the elephant's tail and trunk.
Or, as Helen Keller once responded when asked: "Is there anything worse than not having your sight?"
She responded earnestly, "Oh, yes; it would be much worse to have your sight but not to have vision!"
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