Category Archives: Inner Voices

Temptation To Play Hooky

Posted on December 17, 2008 by 1sojournal

I don’t want to write today. Certainly don’t want to create yet another blog. At the moment, can’t, for the life of me, think of why I ever wanted to do this in the first place, let alone actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Balance, Biography, Choice, Fishing, Friends, Inner Voices, Memory, Personal Story, Playing Hooky, Temptation, Writer's Block | Tagged agenda, artist's date, coloring, comfort food, consequences, depression, disconnect, don't want to write, drift, energy, Fishing, float, harried, high school, house cleaning, in this moment, Julia Cameron, just today, listening to self, Memory, obligations, Playing Hooky, relax, self-punish, sister, stress, Temptation, work | 3 Comments

A Tiger Named Pain

Posted on December 13, 2008 by 1sojournal

Writer’s Island Prompt #10 “MOST AMAZING EXPERIENCE” Pain is the shell that encloses your understanding. __Kahlil Gibran Thirty-plus years ago, I gave birth to my fourth and last child. She was beautiful and healthy, but I seemed to be in almost … Continue reading →

Posted in A Tiger Named Pain, Biography, captivity, guidance, guru, Inner Voices, pain, Personal Story, questions, story, teach, wild thing | Tagged boulder, Carl Gustav Jung, college, exhaustion, fear, guided imagery, guru, imagination, imaging, inner space, Kahlil Gibran, lessons, pain, questions, rabbi riddles, refuel, relax, Rheumatoid Arthritis, secret place, teaching, Tiger, tomes, warm bath, wild flowers | 19 Comments

Wild Thing III

Posted on November 25, 2008 by 1sojournal

A Definition and an Example: First things first. What exactly do I mean by the term Wild Thing? I do not mean some sort of slavering monster bent on total annihilation of you, me, or anyone else. I am … Continue reading →

Posted in conformity, Creativity, Definitions, expression, Family, Growth, Inner Voices, Life, Poetry, Psycho Within, socialization process, Walt Whitman, wild thing | Tagged child, defintion, desire to create, example, inner howl, nipping at heels, parent, personal, Poetry, poets, Psycho Within, silent learning, Song of Myself, to express, urge, Walt Whitman, wild thing | 4 Comments

That Other Kind of Dream, Or The Airplane Lady

Posted on October 8, 2008 by 1sojournal

That one that has nothing to do with sleeping, but everything to do with our waking moments. Our bag of expectations, wants, and desires for our own lives. Those secret plans for our future, sometimes so secret, we aren’t aware … Continue reading →

Posted in Airplanes, Biography, Dreams, fruition, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Self-Awareness, subconscious, Uncategorized, Waking Dreams | Tagged Airplane lady, coalesce, commitment, definition, desires, destination, dream journal, Dreams, excuses, fluff, fruition, journey, learning process, play vs work, reality, seeds, wants, wish filled | 2 Comments

Perchance to Have a Nightmare

Posted on October 6, 2008 by 1sojournal

Over the years, I have read and studied a great deal about Dream Work. I think our sleeping dreams are a major source of information in the process of self-awareness and discovery. They are completely subjective, based on the associations, … Continue reading →

Posted in Connections, Dream Work, Dreams, emotional content, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Life Message, Mythology, nightmare, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized | Tagged analysis, associations and connections, compromise, conscious state, dream, dream journal, Dream Work, dreamer, individual dreamer, interpretation, message, nightmare, puzzle, sleep, sleep state, symbolism | 4 Comments

Different Faces

Posted on September 27, 2008 by 1sojournal

Yesterday, while browsing through several other WordPress blogs, I found a comment (Spasmically Perfect), in which one writer told another that her muse looked like Danny DeVito. I really liked the idea of my muse wearing a face I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Archetype, Creativity, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Mythology, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writer's Block | Tagged Amazon, change, creative energy, deadlines, different faces, evolution, Medusa, Muse, nightmare, poem, Writer's Block | Comments Off

That Old Telephone Game

Posted on September 19, 2008 by 1sojournal

We used to play it all the time. We’d all sit in a circle. One person would begin by whispering in the ear of the person next to her. Just a few phrases, maybe a fact or two. Then that … Continue reading →

Posted in Anger, associations, Connections, enlightenment, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Knowing, Memory, Selective, Subjectivity, Time, Uncategorized | Tagged circle, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, different voices, distorted memory, honesty, Memory, psyche, relationships, source material, surprise at outcome, telephone game, tone, verbiage, whispers, Women Who Run With the Wolves | 2 Comments