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- assumptions
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- balanced life
- beauty
- biohacking
- books
- brain
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- change
- communication
- confidence
- content strategy
- copywriting standards
- creative expression
- creativity
- curation
- darkness
- desktop publishing
- distraction
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- embrace mystery
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- exercise
- fears
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- gestures
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- head injury
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- hiking
- holistic healing
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- humor
- ideas
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- inner dialog
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- journey
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- life-saving
- listening
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- marketing
- meant to be
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- memory
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- my secret innuendo®
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- opposites
- organization
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- physical healing
- poetry
- productivity
- professional
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- silence
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- surrender
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- technology
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- time
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- trusting
- unconscious
- undefined
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- writer's block
- writing challenge
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About breathing, love and hearts - Day 21 of 30 day writing challenge
First of all, I keep listening to this live version of Breathe by The Cinematic Orchestra. Some words:
"That song is singing
singing into me
that everything I used to be
Seek intimidation to know who you really are - Day 20 of 30 day writing challenge
I take my writing cue today from Long Distance Love Bombs. He told me to "seek intimidation, hunt fear" and to basically search for opportunities today to go to my edge of confidence so that I can finally see that I already have all the answers!
Finding bliss - Day 19 of 30 day writing challenge
"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." ~Nelson Mandela.
Now I know why this quote struck a chord in me today. I've been searching for a connection between my past description of bliss and my present lifestyle.
When your son has two BMW project cars - Day 18 of 30 day writing challenge
I've learned how to take on chaos and turn it to calm. I have a son who drives.
He has a new BMW "project car."
Mockingbirds and stucco walls - Day 17 of 30 day writing challenge
I saw someone I know last night, mid-bite, stand up and kill a spider with her fork. The spider was crawling up the wall nearby in the restaurant but not too close to us.
Masculine protecting feminine - Day 16 of 30 day writing challenge
It's a theme rising with others in this group too, namely me: feminine and masculine (emphasizing one over the other). Who should we show externally to the world to succeed? To succeed as writers? As financial bread winners? As parents? As entrepreneurs?
Unloading the weight of the world - Day 15 of 30 day writing challenge
I have a unique iPhone text sound for my favorite people. I dreamed this morning right before waking up of one of my favorite person text sounds. While still dreaming, the text read "I dropped 10". Then I woke up. I laid there in bed trying to figure out what it meant.
Absorbing vulnerability through humor - Day 14 of 30 day writing challenge
I had a dream last night of a cave where I've got giant tongs to reach into the cave and pull out stuff that needs to go. I pulled out one big black thing with tentacles that I wanted to throw away quickly without any of it touching me. I said, "My Vulnerability".
True awareness - Day 13 of 30 day writing challenge
I am deep into an introspective place right now. It's a place of sophrosyne—a healthy state of mind characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, and resulting in true happiness. I'm thinking about the different levels inside myself I traverse. There are definitely different levels.
A sculpture of dishes - Day 12 of 30 day writing challenge
When dishes become psychology
I find joy in defying order. I like to be a rebel against someone who once tried to control me (and no longer can because that scenario never lasts). For instance, right now I am smiling at the sink full of dishes in the kitchen.
New tricks? - Day 11 of 30 day writing challenge
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Cliché I know. Or can you? When I met my parents for dinner last night, a conversation came up around the food choices we make when we're older. [I think that in the back of my mind each day I am preparing for my next day's theme]. I immediately knew that I need to write about the old dogs, me being one of them, but my predecessor started this and my kids will follow.
Planning an escape - Day 10 of 30 day writing challenge
I just want to escape. It's what I think about most lately. It's not that my current life is mundane, but I desperately crave some alone time where it's ok to space out and do whatever I want. What a dream to have very little responsibility except to myself and my own health.
First, I will find the authorized Mysore Ashtanga teacher and the yoga studio to do my Mysore six mornings per week.
Lines that built a story on iTunes set to Shuffle - Day 9 of 30 day writing challenge
I'm trying an experiment today to get inspired to write. I also have a task to do and don't mind you watching me do it. I'm playing my entire iTunes library on Shuffle, and part of the job is to discard songs which really do not need to be with me any longer.
Time and the Seven Deadly Sins - Day 8 of 30 day writing challenge
Today's first theme is time and second is Seven
"Oh yea, you're the one who skipped First Grade and missed the how-to-tell-time lesson," eloquently put by someone who depends on me. Yes, I'm the one.
They just don't care - Day 7 of 30 day writing challenge
You gotta love the days when you wake to a low battery high-pitched beep on a smoke detector in the house, especially during those "snooze" 9-minute sections where you love sleep the most.
Not doing anything but hearing blood flow - Day 6 of 30 day writing challenge
My theme continues... the one where I'm not supposed to do anything. Not doing a thing except holding the universe together sounds good.
Cherry blossoms and bravery - Day 5 of 30 day writing challenge
I want a tattoo with cherry blossoms. Symbolizing bravery, love, wisdom and spiritual awareness, I need them most on my left side of my body. This is the side of receiving, yin and not doing. I need to celebrate all of who I am and never allow myself to forget how to receive all that I deserve.
To wander without being lost - Day 4 of 30 day writing challenge
Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm wandering... and wondering why it is that some days I prefer to let all the chaos build up inside me before I can make a clear thought. Today, I'm feeling it energetically so words are not coming easily—only gibberish.
Coffee now - Day 3 of 30 day writing challenge
I'm up early waiting for my coffee to brew. I usually am at early morning Mysore-style yoga by now. Today I am trying something new. I will attempt to take my daughter to breakfast before school and then go to yoga. And it's ok that I'm late on Fridays
How to make up with a teenager - Day 2 of 30 day writing challenge
The best way to make up with a teenage girl is to just give her back her electronics and not care if she is watching the Vampire Diaries instead of doing homework. At least she ripped pages out of the Twilight book earlier today in her boredom, so we have a clue.