I do not know how other people would set about the task. I can therefore only tell you how I myself have approached the matter, and I must submit to the reproach that my way of solving the problem is the outcome of my individual prejudice. Indeed, this objection is so entirely true, that I should not know how to meet it. I might, perhaps, content myself by referring to Columbus, who, by using subjective assumptions, a false hypothesis, and a route abandoned by modem navigation, nevertheless discovered America.
Carl G Jung, Modern Man in search for a soul
This one little paragraph so thrilled me!
Contentment is the art of embracing where I am at.
I am driven to write.
Anne Lamott in her book, “Bird by Bird” tells her students over and over again to stop thinking about getting published, and instead concentrate on writing.
I started this Blog so that I could just write. Releasing expectations to the wind. By ‘expectations’ I mean outcome, the results of the effort, will be the results. My gain is to fully develop my ability to express my thoughts. I know when I see my heart staring back at me like a mirror on the page! It’s Over was like that. It wasn’t conceived ahead of time, but word by word as I saw it in my head, and put it on paper… erm, well, I use my iPhone to write, but let’s not quibbble.
In the process I am learning how to use WordPress to self publish.
I was so blessed to hear the other day that my cousin Katie, is with me as I write. She likes my blog!
She is in an excellent position to read Anne’s book, and follow the daily routine of teaching herself the discipline of writing. Katie also told me she has written, and that my writing and hers bear some resemblance!
She has no way of knowing how much I need the connection she has offered to me. Except that she just believes me for crying out loud 😝
I wondered out loud, in a text, if she was into book books, or audiobooks… in the flurry of her own goal of showing me the results of her Corn Bread bake, she didn’t answer me.
OR she wondered in her inside voice why I’d ask that when we’d already discussed that 😂 I remembered later that she likes actual books, and knows how to utilize a library.
The nice thing about audiobooks, though, is being able to do other stuff at the same time, like baking Corn Bread 😬
A simple thing like that, though, is very valuable for her to stick to! Because it is part of who she is as a person.
More about that tomorrow ☺️
Running Down Vimy 