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Linda K. Smith is a certified paralegal, whose studies include premed, prelaw, psychology, and advanced creative writing courses at Daytona Beach Community College, n/k/a Daytona State College.
Smith earned her Paralegal / Legal Assistant Diploma, with honors, at WV Career College, Daytona Beach Campus, in Daytona Beach, Florida, n/k/a West Virginia Community College.
While practicing as a paralegal, Smith took advanced creative writing courses, under the tutelage of the prolific Author, Robert W. Walker, to enhance her legal writing skills. Instead, she penned her debut novel, The Fitzgerald File, a legal suspense.
She writes fiction, nonfiction, personal essays, and poetry, drawing on her life experiences as a daughter, sibling, wife, mother, nurturer, and Dreamweaver.
Inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the love affair between two of the Victorian era’s most famous poets, for it is one of passion, tragedy, illness, and ultimately, endurance, has great significance in Smith’s life; she’ll demonstrate to you that, among other things, dreams literally do come true; Walt Whitman, and Smith’s relatability to Whitman’s verses, when he says: “Clear and Sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul…,” How many of you will attest to the profundity of such verses? How many of you are willing to invite others into your universe to unveil such astounding revelations with you? And lastly, how many of you have attested, as best as a mere mortal can, to Emily Dickinson’s “Faith” is a fine invention / For Gentlemen who see! / But Microscopes are prudent / In an Emergency!”?
Included will be dozens of true-life incidences drawn from Smith’s voluminous years as a practicing certified Paralegal, who is also an amateur Theologian, and as such, has also sketched an illustration of Mother Mary, and penned a poetry chap Book, entitled Purple Twilight, which were all birthed while writing her nonfiction book, A Still, Small Voice, and promulgating what Helen Schucman wrote in 1977, in a brief introduction to A Course in Miracles, the first of two parts—How It Came…written by the process of inner dictation, stated in giving the Holy Spirit “little willingness” that is sufficient enough to enable Him to use any situation for His purposes and provide it with His power.
Smith writes poetry and prose when inspiration strikes and writes down highly symbolic dreams and descriptions of images that come to her—forever cognizant that this life is not conclusion. God sends His teachers.
The healing comes by Smith pressing her pen to the blank page, shedding tears, ridding pain, "sorrow and confusion"; sorrow and confusion over the fact that "flesh and blood" would choose mammon over God.