Rereading My Writing

I highly recommend rereading your writing at least once a week. I have let my writing alone for years sometimes and then when I come back to it I find the most beautiful treasures! Poems and prose buried deep in the journals and electronic entries and scraps of paper.

Rereading also connects me to those moments, and there have been oh so many! And I reconnect to all the images and visions I have had. It is a good feeling.

This week I am trying out a new way of organizing my calendar. I have been booking specific times for specific tasks. This week I am just going to make a list of the tasks I need to do each day, how long they will take and then organically go through my day, referring to the list as need be for the next item. This feels a lot more fluid and natural to me then a structured, rigid program. I was having trouble breathing there for a while as each hour was booked with a specific action, and I was getting to none of it. So far it is working beautifully. Shows how we tend to try and fit our round selves into square holes.

I am excited I have set my goals, or manifestations, up to the summer solstice. I have them written out and displayed on my desk where I can see them daily. A great climb to the top of the year, there to look around and glory in the view.

Hello Once More!

~My shadow falling over the Grand Canyon.

Wow! I can't believe I haven't written in here since last year. Time to make up for it. Let's see... About a year and a bit more ago I had hurt my knee. It is still not bending fully, dislocating patella, but daily I do my yoga practice, and my strengthening exercises, and take walks and dance, and it is getting better. My boyfriend and I went raw, so that is helping quite a bit with inflammation and the chronic degeneration. You can visit our blog where we are documenting our raw and living foods journey.

We have travelled so much! We were all over Ontario last year, camping at least 6 times, and then in Budapest, Poland, Arizona twice and Nevada over the Winter. Now it is Spring here in Ontario, and we have begun cleaning out our basement and our yard, and feeling great about it. The basement we have likened to our subconscious, and the backyard to our sustenance (our garden) and sanctuary. The basement we have also likened to the bowels of our home, and it is is good to cleanse the bowels in the Spring. The garden is sprouting green, and we had help trimming out fruit trees and bushes. We may have an experienced organic gardener come and help us set up a larger vegetable garden this year, and herbal garden of course.

I am in a place of greatness in many ways. I count all that I am grateful for: my love, my family, my communities, my home, my health, my calling. And my writing, yes, my writing! I am writing almost daily, stories and journal entries that always surprise me. I never know what is next.

I have decided to only go onto Facebook once a week. What a change! I love it. I am writing more, rediscovering other hobbies (I have picked up my weaving again, and making a lot of food). Time to transfer my energies. All my old crutches are not serving me. Time to rediscover actual human relationships, and add variety into my life in new, positive, healthy and creative ways. That is my challenge and my joy right now.