My name is Margot Mooring. I am a 16 year old who attends Logos Online School. I live in Oklahoma with my parents and a surprising amount of little siblings. I have many interests, but some of my favorite things to do are to cook, swim, read, and learn (about most topics, but math is a glaring exception.) Above all, I love spending time building relationships with my family and friends, no matter what form that may take.
I love to create. To use words and build something beautiful. This applies whether I am writing a poem, story, essay or just arranging my thoughts on paper. I create with words because I am made in the image of God, the one who with a few spoken words, created all that is good and beautiful.
However, unlike God, I cannot create ex nihilo, (out of nothing), I need ideas and themes to work with. These I get from a multitude of authors much smarter and better written than myself. When I read, I lay the foundation on which my own creations are built.
Though I have only been writing seriously for less than a year, I have something to say. Pictures and words living in my mind that burn for me to say. My goal is to give those pictures to you with poignant accuracy. Pictures that inspire or admonish. Pictures that express a little piece of this beautiful world that we live in, and the One who fashioned it.
Of the few poems I have written so far, this is my favorite.
Golden Rule
On still warm nights beneath the starry host, Sometimes I think that I can almost see: My unfolding tale - a dim golden ghost, My name in bold on a biography. My saga all written and now being read. A tap’stry of color, telling my story, Each event a stitch and each life a thread.
And here is a sample story.
Joel Anderson
It is commonly known that age changes a man. Sometimes it mellows, sometimes it hardens. With some, it weakens, and not just physically. Their life has been emptied little by little, year after year. Strength and vigor has been slowly stolen with the passing of each loved one, leaving them tired. Tired and longing to rest.