Category Archives: change
Stone and Water and the Red-Cross Driver
I’ve been sitting here, in front of this blank page, for over half an hour. So many thoughts about what I could write have floated in and out of my head, that if strung together, and actually written down, … Continue reading
Posted in change, Creativity, exchange, meditation, movement, Stone and Water and the Red-Cross Driver
Tagged alterations, Beth Nielsen Chapman, boulder in a riverbed, brush against, changes and exchanges, counselor, Creativity, designs, environment, Family, flow, Friends, Goodwill store, holes in soul, meditation, mending, minute, moments, movement, Red-Cross driver, sand, settling, song lyrics, sorting, Stone, strangers, thought process, trance states, water
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New Responsibilities, New Freedoms
Writer’s Island prompt #16 Brand New Day Have a friend who is a receptionist for a well-known Law office. As such, she is the first impression new clients meet when they arrive. She told me of an experience she had … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, change, Choice, Friends, Mr. Obama, New Freedoms, New Responsibilities, preconceived notions
Tagged actions and choices, age, age 65, brand new day, clutching purses, color, commit, concrete proof, Danish descent, fact and experience, finding common ground, gender, gift ourselves, hooking into opposite, Mr. Obama, older white woman, preconceived notions, profound conversation, reality, receptionist, silent boundaries, threshold
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About Authenticity
Writer’s Island prompts #12 and #13 “Change For the Better” Was a bit disappointed when I went to see what the prompt might be for today. My last blog was about all the changes I have had to deal with, … Continue reading
Posted in authenticity, Balance, change, Choice, ee cummings, fitting in, Individuation, Journal Writing
Tagged authentic, authenticity, becoming me, belonging, birth certificate, change, choices, Definitions, dig in, doable, ee cummings, fitting in, for the better, inside my skin, justify, niggle, self, suggested attributes, tap dancing on a high wire, teaching and learning, this blog, validity, what is really meant
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Final Accounting: 2008
Today is the last day of this year, 2008. I have spent some time, looking back on the days, weeks, and months that are passing into my personal history, perhaps better labeled herstory. This has been an incredible year, … Continue reading
Posted in American Idol, awakenings, change, David Cook, discipline, Dreams, experience, Final Accounting, Friends, Life, perspective, Poetry, teach, Time, writing
Tagged A Woman of Color, accounting, activities, American Idol, awakenings, blogging, challenges, change, counseling, David Cook, deeper meaning, diabetes, different, disciplines, Dreams, friendships, fulfillment, gratitude, herstory, inner couch potato, last day of year, new and old, objective voice, on the page, overstuffed rocking chair, pleasure, Poetry, prose, regimens, risks, satisfaction, soul's music, success, support and encouragement
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The In-Betweens
This is a difficult time of the year. Christmas is behind us, New Year’s is still coming, and we are caught between them. All the gearing up for the Big Day, needs to find its natural release, and feels … Continue reading
Posted in Balance, change, giving, Grasped Lightly, grayness, In-Betweens, Life, movement, Predicament, Recieving, Seed Faith
Tagged acceptance, change of plans, difficult to think, empty hands, enervating, focus, fog, get togethers, gifts, giving, gray, hope, In-Betweens, judgment, lull, moving myself, purpose, receiving, Seed Faith, selfish, sunshine, surprises, understanding, wispy
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Holes in The Soul
She pictures the broken glass pictures the steam pictures a soul with no leak at the seam __Peter Gabriel Mercy Street Several months ago, I told my counselor about a dream I’d had many years ago, in … Continue reading
Posted in associations, Biography, change, changing the end of the story, Connections, Creativity, Dreams, grief, pain, story, Waking Dreams, wild thing
Tagged changing the end of the story, counselor, dream language, Dream Work, Dreams, emotional, fabric and material, holes in the soul, imagery, imagination, imaging, life experiences, mental, Mercy Street, pain, Peter Gabriel, physical, solutions, spiritual, subconscious mind, techniques, Therapy, visualization, wild things, wilderness
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Map of Awareness
In a recent blog, I used the phrase map of awareness, and its been circling around inside my head ever since. I’m not aware of having ever used the phrase before, so it intrigues me that it sort of … Continue reading
Posted in change, child, Creativity, learning process, Map of Awareness, Personal Story, questions, Record, Steps In Learning, story, Subjectivity, wild thing
Tagged 2nd step in learning process, birth of Wild Thing, change, Creativity, desperate, forming personality, imagination, injured brain, journal pages, know vs aware, Map of Awareness, mile-markers, notebook, Record, sensory input, terms
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Personal Take Cont. (WT, as well)
I came home from the hospital to a totally different environment than the one I had left beneath the rear wheel of my father’s big black Pontiac. My world had been altered and, when I looked in the mirror, … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, boundaries, change, child, Definitions, experience, Family, Life, pain, Personal Story, Self-Awareness, wild thing
Tagged altered, beliefs, bogey man, change, comfort zone, different, don't fit in, embraced, Family, four year old, garbled, home, hospital, interpretations, lonely, misfit, not belonging, outside view, resistance, skewed, sniff, survival, uncomfortable in own skin, what's to be gained, worldview
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