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Words are the seeds of thought. Lightning flashes in a dark squishy chamber with disconnected bits and pieces of a vague spark, welding to another evanescent wisp of recognition, cross-matched with a random image. Words form, roots sink deep into memory, sentences erupt into the sunlight of consciousness, a story emerges…
Debra L Scott is a writer, poet, photographer and artist. Her focus is with the natural world and its seen and unseen inhabitants. As a grandmother and reviewer of children’s books, I love that place where imagination and magic thrives before reality and logic kicks in. Her spirituality is deeply tied to the earth.
As a disabled person, she is passionate about the challenges presented by being different, both visibly and invisibly, in a world built for the abled. She is an advocate for those with the complicated and often misunderstood disease of latex allergy and trains her service dogs to detect natural rubber latex even through sealed packages and behind closed doors. As ‘Seeing Eye Wife’ to a blind person for 20+ years, Debra tries to view the world through the alternate perception of the blind. Universal Design is essential in accessibility accommodations.
My worldview is shaped by a lifetime of multinational residences and multicultural experiences. Born in a suburban shadow of DC, she has lived in Venezuela, Barbados, France and Tunisia. This exposure to life beyond her native home has impacted her worldview to encompass all cultures, a gift of perception.
Ancestry is another of her passions. The movement of the Scott family line from medieval communities, royalty, and immigration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony forms the outline of one of her works in progress.
In non-fiction, Debra is working on a book of survival strategies for those with the poorly understood condition of latex allergy.
Some of my short stories, poetry and essays have been published in local journals. Nonbinary, pronouns unimportant.
