Category Archives: Life
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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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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Wild Thing III
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
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Opposite Sides And Another Challenge
I truly like to hear at least two sides of an issue before making a decision. In my last blog, I wrote about why we have difficulty with admitting that we don’t know certain things. I knew when I finished, that I … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Balance, Challenge, Choice, exercise, grief, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, love, Opposite Sides, pain, Self-Awareness, synchronicity, Uncategorized
Tagged carved in stone, Challenge, change, dog and god, expression, grief, issue, know vs don't know, Knowing, love, Opposite Sides, pain, parameters, second chance, story
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I Just Don’t Know
One of the greatest, and possibly most profound, advantages of keeping a journal is that it is the one secure place where one can openly admit that one simply doesn’t know. Why is that the hardest thing to do? To just … Continue reading
Posted in Balance, Choice, Individuation, Journal Writing, Knowing, Life, questions, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged answers, belonging, fine line, fool, foolish, giving, group, human psyche, independence vs dependence, primary need, private existence, public acceptance, public vs private, questons, tiptoeing
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One of Those Days
There are those days, when I don’t wish to write prose. When as soon as I try to compose stately sentences that march cleanly across the page and down between the margins, the pen starts dancing to its own music, … Continue reading
Posted in Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged control, focused concentration, jive, music, peace of mind, poem, silence silenced, unbound knowledge
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Talisman
I made another trip to Dictionary.com this morning, before coming here. I had been talking to a friend in Arizona, and she was telling me about a picture she had found and carried around with her because she so liked the … Continue reading
Posted in Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged Anne Frank, Dictionary, drawn to, influence, journal, medicine bag, morning pages, naming, power, process of creating talisman, talisman, thoughts and feelings, Wikipedia
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