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When you write yourself back to where you are
The ground is always moving. Stay grounded in who you are. Remembering who I am is sometimes a task. I’m not so good sometimes at receiving my gifts.
I stumbled upon an article I wrote years ago describing who I wanted to be in life—my career, to be exact—but really was asked to describe my identity in the world. I’m amazed to recognize that today I’m doing just what I described. It was eleven years ago.
I felt misunderstood back then. It’s a continual process to gain confidence in my natural talents, as if I need to reign over them.
Practicing confidence: A metaphorical house
I’ve come alive in some areas that surprised me but that emerged as I was writing—with a real pen in my hand into a mole skin journal; I find special powers in heavy ink pens.
I invited my insecurities and desires to rise up through the prompts.
My favorite is about a room in a metaphorical house representing my life. Mine is the tiniest house of time, which is the subtitle to my book I just published.
On recovery and intuition
David Whyte, the writer, pops into my Inbox from time to time. Normally, his messages set the stage for great introspection. Here’s the latest:
Rest is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be. Rest is the essence of giving and receiving; an act of remembering, imaginatively and intellectually, but also psychologically and physically. To rest is to give up on the already exhausted will as the prime motivator of endeavour, with its endless outward need to reward itself through established goals.
What I didn’t know I’d want to know now
I’m enchanted by myself. I just reread my blog posts from many years ago when my three offspring were teenagers. Some of the posts I deleted. Others I will savor for years to come. The writing was quite snide but only a single parent raising teenagers—ones who are born from their own genes—can relate to me…
Behind the eyes of a writer™: A series, part eighteen
Watch time stand still with me. Ok? Help me to quietly become one with the search for what is luring me.
you ask me to be still
and so i do..
you lie hidden within, unfelt
the answers touching you
A stairway to a train to the top: My destiny
There is a stairway. I climbed it last night. In my dream. I knew these stairs led to the train to the top. I got to these stairs by a train moving effortlessly on a waterway. I wanted to call someone to explain how easy it was to travel across water.
Today I will write a manifesto: Writing my future with full clarity
I put it in my calender that today I will write a manifesto. I thought about this in yoga this morning. I started writing in my mind. Then—after coming home—I decided to go back to a second yoga class in a row in order to get psyched; it was Bikram yoga no less. It was a physical yoga manifesto.
Embracing illness: Holistic healing process
I am happy for the miracles that occur in healing sometimes. Surreal, yet not. For instance, it is known in some cancer patients with x months left to live—as deemed by their doctors—that to embrace their illness by leading a life full of bliss for the last months of life is to allow cancers go into remission.
What I said is not what I mean
This bridge encapsulates a journey into the unknown somehow. To walk out onto this bridge into the fog along a treacherous cliff along old cobblestone seems precarious to say the least. Yet, it draws me in. If I were faced with this bridge in this moment, I would surely put one step in front of the other and venture out onto it.
Feel yourself at peace: Coming into wholeness
What does that mean to come into wholeness? Imagine yourself at peace, in love and at one with your path in life, and then you will know the answer.