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This is my house. It’s where I get to exult, complain, brag, muse and use bad language. The door is open. The cupcakes are frosted. You are welcome to join me.

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On Not Writing

This post is part of my 2022 Word Project. You can read what that's about here. Wednesday, March 22, 2023 8:07pm Earlier this year I did a seven day "Stop Holding Yourself Back" mini course on the Insight Timer app. There are lots of things to love about that app, including a swell timer and some nice background sounds to block out the ringing in your ears and the beeping of the construction trucks while you are trying to meditate. They have some good guided meditations and a bunch of Binaural Beats that I find helpful. And they have a lot of woo. A lot of tapping into your inner light and connecting with the infinite universe or opening the sky of your mind. But once in a while they have something that speaks to me, and "stop holding yourself back" was one of those things. Because I am my own worst tether. Out of seven days, six and a half of them were more woo than not, but one of the exercises that particularly resonated was one in which you had to imagine yourself living your best creative life. Not the "I want to retire and live on the beach forever" kind of life, but the "if I could live my passion what would it look like" kind of life. It gave me pause because it was an exercise I have never done. I also took a productivity course recently. A four week course, in which one of the…

Foiled Again!

I had a word today. A whole plan. And then the day happened, and the thing I wanted to write about didn't. This happened instead.

Words Spring Eternal

I used to not like spring. Weird, right? But I've learned to appreciate it and now look forward to many things about it, not least of which is strawberry season. Today, we celebrate the first day of spring and the hope it brings.