So I’m stuck right now with expanding upon the second act of my WIP. I need more twists, but coming up with plausible events that seem to appear out of nowhere for the reader is tough enough. Mapping it out,… Read more ›
Please God, help me to accept compassion in my life. Compassion with myself for feeling things that probably aren’t the smartest. Compassion with myself for wanting things that aren’t feasible right now. Compassion with myself for craving touch that likely… Read more ›
After years of wanting to do it, I finally jumped.
Posted on Social Consciousness Facebook page, October 11, 2013
A good story is about change: a character changing to overcome a difficult situation. It doesn’t matter who the main character is (could be the girl next door; a single-mom baker next to city hall; a sim lab instructor at… Read more ›
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. ~Buddha… Read more ›
Painting my living room and dining/study has been surprisingly therapeutic. Ideas are beginning to trickle into awareness. Finally. I shouldn’t complain, of course, but these HTTS lessons — once I allow myself to settle into each — are encouraging other… Read more ›
The little one fell off her bike last summer. I was jogging with her along the quiet road behind my condo, and had just slipped ahead to encourage her to speed up. Seconds later I looked back in time to… Read more ›
As I type this, car doors slam across the street as my neighbor leaves for the hospital, where her husband remains 10 days after surgery to remove a Stage IV brain tumor. I’m pretty damn lucky right now. I should… Read more ›
My 2013 New Year’s resolution / project was to focus on a writing project — revision, specifically, since my creative spark remains a barely-glowing ember after the past couple of years. On January 1st I pulled my very first draft… Read more ›
Lots of changes over the past couple of years: … a crazy spiritual overhaul in my little brain … … followed by upheaval in my writing life … … followed by a tectonic shift in my personal life … My… Read more ›
I am my thoughts. I am my dreams. I am my hopes. I am my nightmares. I am my imagination. I am my fears. I am the great potential I seek. I am my world, and my fellow Wanderers. I… Read more ›
Christmas came early!I was tearing through a few boxes from Amazon.com last evening when I discovered a dear friend gifted me with my very own “Joie de Vivre Tarot” deck. The cards feature lovely, joyous creatures resembling Alice In Wonderland… Read more ›
That’s right, folks — today’s the day! No matter if you believe in heaven or hell, angels or ghosts, the power of love or the power of material things… for several thousand years, **TODAY** has been marked as the End… Read more ›
We’re discussing THE REASON FOR GOD: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller in Sunday School right now. I’m only a few chapters in, but so far it’s given me lots of tasty tidbits to chew on about… Read more ›