Tag: Love Yourself
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Quote of the Week…
“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.” Zadie Smith, 1975-
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Moving Through Space…
I love cozying in my writing closet or reading chair with coffee and classical tunes. I also love moving through space. When I was maybe seven, I discovered the thrill of put-putting around the neighborhood in my brother’s go-cart, the ground so close, the bushes and trees fleeting by. From that day, I couldn’t wait…
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Quote of the Week…
“Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.” Langston Hughes, 1902-1967
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Snow Days…
It snowed last week in Houston so much that lingering snow remained on our deck for a full five days. I don’t recall snow on the ground during the Deep Freeze of 2021 when the power grid failed and the temperature of the interior of our home dropped to the mid-forties. Perhaps all my energy…
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Siren Song…
“Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.’” Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way; A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. I’m not surprised at the serendipity of reading those words on December 31. Cameron’s path is all about synchronicity. We are reeling…
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Quote of the Week…
“Beauty ain’t always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, ‘Damn.’” Albert Johnson, as Prodigy, 1974 – 2017
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A Bouquet…
I recently shared a moment with a stranger in an unorganized and overstuffed sales rack. She held up a dress and asked if it was too wild. What? No! The classic style and muted tones of a floral theme were asking to be worn. I said wearing it would be like wrapping herself in a…
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Color!
I recently hung out with two adorable girls who are the age of coloring with abandon. We engaged in a doodling craft time with precut bookmarks and crayons, then gathered brown grocery bags when the paper supplies ran out. If you haven’t colored lately, I recommend it. But there can be no rules – set…
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Claim It!…
My writing community is a wealth of intelligent, funny, well-read souls who travel alongside my insecure and doubtful self. We hold virtual hands; we cry and laugh and woohoo. Each and every one of us suffers doubts. Positive feedback is buried under rejections, large and small, no matter where we are in the process. I…
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Quote of the Week…
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” Melody Beattie, 1948 –
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