Creativity can be much like the tide with its ebbs and flows. This can be acceptable at times, yet frustrating at others. It can also be a challenge to know where to go at times with this flow. Here are some tools I’ve gathered along the way that you may find helpful in your ownContinue reading “Tools for Fueling your Creative Fire”
Category Archives: writing
Unplanned Hiatus
Somewhere I lost my way. It happens to us all at some point. Getting back into the writing saddle has been more challenging than I expected this time. It was innocent, the loss. Or so it seemed. Until I realized one day there was something missing. It’s as if I left my best friend behindContinue reading “Unplanned Hiatus”
Shifting Purpose & Writer’s Block
In a way, I feel as if this “head cleaning cassette tape” were something I had used on myself! And thus I have also “dated” myself… What does one write about when the purpose of writing has suddenly disappeared? This blog was born out of my desire desperate need to understand and share my process ofContinue reading “Shifting Purpose & Writer’s Block”
In the Openness We Create
I have recently been experiencing a writer’s block. In keeping myself filled with “to do” lists and increasing my self-care regimen – mostly filling my time and space with “good things,” I have not felt the same call to write for some time. I really could make excuses all day. There are mornings and nightsContinue reading “In the Openness We Create”
Writer’s Block: The Pursuit of Perfection
Words typically flow through my mind like a raging river. Recently, the flow stopped in a way it had never done before. I felt frozen, cold and isolated, as if in a shell. A shell, it turns out, I had imposed upon myself and reinforced. Breathing through the stagnation, spending more time in meditation andContinue reading “Writer’s Block: The Pursuit of Perfection”
Six Word Stories: Another Lost Chapter
9″ and counting. Please. Stop. Raining. Thinking naughty things, not about rain? Here comes more rain. Sleepy-time again. Island flooded; prayers for Haiti’s people. Another rift, another gift stepping forward. Dancing in circles. Exhausting or invigorating? Believing the lies; forgotten little one. Writing is connecting deeply with oneself. Six word stories creating a fuss. CountingContinue reading “Six Word Stories: Another Lost Chapter “
Loving Ourselves IS Our Purpose
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~Rumi Original draft 8.7.2016 Beautifully Scarred While at a poetry reading in late July, I penned four completely different poems pointed in four directions that were all felt and written within 30 minutes from start to finish. From heavy, to light, to introspective, to fun,Continue reading “Loving Ourselves IS Our Purpose “
Salud: A Toast
With my lowball raised in the air, I toast to a year of blogging, a year of following and a year of being followed. I appreciate the support I have received from each one of you in this journey. Being supported in exploring the inner workings of my heart, mind and soul has been an interesting processContinue reading “Salud: A Toast”
Pardon Me #350
My time on WordPress has become excessive and addictive. While I have backed off somewhat over the past few weeks, it has not been enough. So it’s high time for me to take a sabbatical on posting. As I have a busy personal calendar over the next few months, this may be a good spring board for meContinue reading “Pardon Me #350”
bloodletting
the words pour out like blood onto the pages pumping never ceases tirelessly one must pour more blood in for the letting
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