I am in a good mood for once. A great mood. Can you believe it? (I hope it lasts.)
So I’m going to share the joy with some ❤ link love ❤ today. But first? Continue reading “Wednesday thoughts – blog and book link love”
Category: inspiration
Thank you for being my friend
I am so happy!
Golden Girls is on Amazon Prime in Canada … and I watched the first three episodes last night. 🙂
Coins in the age of debit cards
Do you carry coins with you?
Today, I would have been really glad to have some extra coins on me for the rough, but friendly looking beggar food insecure woman… Continue reading “Coins in the age of debit cards”
Emotional ebb and flow of life
Everything is temporary.
A wise person said this once but it escapes me now where I read it.
It’s true though, don’t you think? Be it euphoric joy or debilitating depression, we pass through these sets of emotions and emerge with a fresh perspective. Maybe a new outlook. Definitely with accumulated life experience.
It’s the latter that defines us, characterizes us as the individuals we are today.
Life experience. Continue reading “Emotional ebb and flow of life”
Some thoughts about Rilke, writers’ block and creativity
I read a book by Rainer Maria Rilke some time ago called Letters to a Young Poet.
There is a passage that I came across today that I feel the need to share here with you:
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.” (Rainer Maria Rilke)
There is much to take from this that is healing and helpful when you are feeling down or anxious, confused or depressed. Continue reading “Some thoughts about Rilke, writers’ block and creativity”
The numerical values of time, and what to do with it
I am not a numbers person. I have never been much of a math person. But today, I was inspired by some numbers.
The internet calculates things for us confused folk, hence, it was easy to lift the numerical values off the screen. All I have to do now is supplement them with my crafty words.
That is my jam, as you know. Words, not numbers.
So here goes. Continue reading “The numerical values of time, and what to do with it”
A nail, a hammer, and a bike ride
So. I have bad news about some pieces I submitted. But, that’s ok. I’m going to get myself a long nail and a hammer, so I can start a collection of rejections. Like Stephen King did. He mentioned this in his book On Writing.
So far, 2 of my stories I wrote recently were declined, the other 5 still being reviewed, and the rest ongoing.
Wonder what mom would think if I started hammering nails into walls in her house… 😵 Continue reading “A nail, a hammer, and a bike ride”
Writing catharsis
I got derailed this weekend.
When a friend asked me to be a beta reader for some chapters he wrote, and I said yes, I didn’t know it was going to derail me from my own writing.
Except, it didn’t really.
Allow me to explain. Continue reading “Writing catharsis”
Changes: something’s gotta give
A couple of days ago my boot-camp lady sent an email advising us that she was finally able to secure a permit to hold outdoor classes at nearby parks. 😃
There are a few changes: bring your own yoga mat, maximum 10 people per class, distanced stations to circuit through, etc.
She will sanitize the equipment (weights, rope, balls etc) before, during and after.
It’s exciting…but, I’m hesitating.
