My "oar", recently (perhaps for a few weeks now), has been 'Wholehearted'-- I find that I find dormant energy and instrumental fuel-cells of fortitude when I remember it (although I forget often)~~~and I am so grateful to express it in order to remember often...especially here! Special Thanks! I have a playlist entitled "Breathe" and it would rub nicely up against 'Wholehearted': 'Breathe Wholeheartedness'.
Ive a phrase I've developed that supports me: I need reminders to remember what I already know to be true". So when particular event occurs that is not so very sweet , I recall this phrase as a bridge towards what I already have used as a tool. I guess it's a form of gratitude phrase.:-)
Naomi’s right. Writing is sacred graffiti on the walls of time. It’s how the self leaves breadcrumbs through the labyrinth of memory. It’s how we sneak hope past the inner doomsayer who insists everything is pointless before lunch.
When I journal, it’s not for productivity. It’s for protection. A spell cast in ink. A rescue mission for some exiled part of me that still believes in love without irony.
As for the many selves inside me—one is tired, one is defiant, one still thinks we can fix this world with metaphors and mint tea. But they all sit at the table when I pick up the pen.
Today my oar word is “withstand.” Not in a clenched-jaw way, but like a tree that’s learned to bend. We don’t outrun the storm. We root into it and write our names in the dirt, anyway.
Reading my own thoughts here, in someone else's creative words. Just love this kind of mystikal experience! Thank you so much for sharing your Being. Shall also share you with my Seymour Writers (Seniors) Group. Namaste.
I was fortunate to join a ‘new works’ session at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 2012. Participants had the option of joining sessions with Naomi Shihab Nye during their days there, an experience I’ve never forgotten and often refer back to.
Thank you for sharing this brilliant journaling resource. I love the idea of using a word or phrase as an oar with which to write and move and live and breathe...
My "oar", recently (perhaps for a few weeks now), has been 'Wholehearted'-- I find that I find dormant energy and instrumental fuel-cells of fortitude when I remember it (although I forget often)~~~and I am so grateful to express it in order to remember often...especially here! Special Thanks! I have a playlist entitled "Breathe" and it would rub nicely up against 'Wholehearted': 'Breathe Wholeheartedness'.
Ive a phrase I've developed that supports me: I need reminders to remember what I already know to be true". So when particular event occurs that is not so very sweet , I recall this phrase as a bridge towards what I already have used as a tool. I guess it's a form of gratitude phrase.:-)
Naomi’s right. Writing is sacred graffiti on the walls of time. It’s how the self leaves breadcrumbs through the labyrinth of memory. It’s how we sneak hope past the inner doomsayer who insists everything is pointless before lunch.
When I journal, it’s not for productivity. It’s for protection. A spell cast in ink. A rescue mission for some exiled part of me that still believes in love without irony.
As for the many selves inside me—one is tired, one is defiant, one still thinks we can fix this world with metaphors and mint tea. But they all sit at the table when I pick up the pen.
Today my oar word is “withstand.” Not in a clenched-jaw way, but like a tree that’s learned to bend. We don’t outrun the storm. We root into it and write our names in the dirt, anyway.
Reading my own thoughts here, in someone else's creative words. Just love this kind of mystikal experience! Thank you so much for sharing your Being. Shall also share you with my Seymour Writers (Seniors) Group. Namaste.
I was fortunate to join a ‘new works’ session at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 2012. Participants had the option of joining sessions with Naomi Shihab Nye during their days there, an experience I’ve never forgotten and often refer back to.
https://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/2012/09/thank-you-haystack.html
Thank you for sharing this brilliant journaling resource. I love the idea of using a word or phrase as an oar with which to write and move and live and breathe...