Category Archives: experience
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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Semantics of Breathing
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can breathe. _Anais Nin Writing means a great many different things to me. A few years ago, someone close to me said that writing was my … Continue reading
Posted in Anais Nin, Breathing Lessons, Choice, creature, Definitions, experience, Memory, perspective, Quotations, Semantics, Subjectivity, views, writing
Tagged Anais Nin, blog, breathing, change, creation, creature, Definitions, exist, full-circle, god-like, hubris, meaning, my world, perspectives, pride, Semantics, views, writing
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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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