Care and Intention

I celebrated my birthday today and it was perfect! I couldn’t have asked for anything more!!

I’m growing older but I still feel like I’m just starting to learn to live in depth. So many goals have been smashed in 2026 and I’m still living and breathing. I don’t want to miss out while smashing goals though, I want to live while I smash them. And that might mean that goals take longer to reach but they will be reached with care and intention at the forefront. And I can’t think of a better way to live.

Here’s to another amazing year of living and breathing with care and intention.

What Can You Create?

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

There’s things that happen that are out of our control like this upcoming storm. It completely ruined my birthday plans. Completely out of my control but what I have in my control is what I can around the house to make my day more enjoyable.

We can write our stories how we desire. It can turn out to be something different once we finish but we get to decide whether it’s worth finishing or if it should be scrapped. Writing is the liberation from the limitations of this world. I believe that.

There’s so many limitations the world wants to place on us. From how we dress to the way we talk there are expectations we are expected to meet whether we want them placed on us or not. When we close the door to write those things drift away and we can sing and dance through our poetry.

The Buzz of Life

The light buzzes behind my 🐝

eyelids that weigh more 🐝

than the ad offers. 🐝

An accumulation of information 🐝

only to get lost somewhere 🐝

inside a mind that stretches 🐝

across the universe. 🐝

Do I float to retrieve it 🐝

or let it go?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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Contentment

You rolled off my sacred tongue and into some place.

where there’s few passing cars and trees

lots of trees.

Who am I to find you where you are?

What am I to do when I seek you?

I’m content in the comfort of my own writing chair

illuminated by the words scrolling across the screen.

And if I get there,

what’s to become of this corner

where my imagination can run free?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

I had to Experience Publishing my Novel

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson


I didn’t see how or when I’d ever finished my first novel, but somehow, I managed to make it to the end. It was a humbling experience that I needed to have. It had to happen because for some reason it was my finish line, but when a writer publishes a book, it’s not the finish line. The finish line is either death or the place of your choosing. Don’t get me wrong, publishing your work is something worth celebrating! The thing is if you plan to publish novelssss, it’s just one piece of a potentially lifelong process. Now that the ghost of my unpublished novel is done nipping at my heels, I can get back to being a writer.

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“For some of us the need to write is so profound that if we can’t do it we are quite miserable.” –Dinitia Smith

It’s not that I write to avoid being miserable. I enjoy writing very much. I deeply enjoy returning to these two novels I’ve been working on. I can’t share much about them yet, but they really are the highlight of my writing ritual. I can just dive into these worlds and play. That makes it sound like an escape, but I enjoy being alive more now than ever. So it’s not the escape either.

So, what makes me write every day?

The ritual of it. At first, I wrote for a million other reasons, but when it comes down to it, I just want to write novels. The question is “How bad do you want it?” I want it bad enough to sit at the computer for 5 hours a day to work on it. That’s a really boring answer but the truth is often unremarkable.

I mean that’s not all, writing has other benefits: understanding myself better, understanding my fellow man better, tweaking my belief system, and a million other reasons that draw me in. Sometimes the draw is a connection to those who have passed through my life and left a mark.

What makes you write?

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My Romance with Writing

It’s not just some lover who came

and left me empty

standing at the edge of the world.

It’s something else entirely.

My romance is a mystery

cloaked with a veil,

an obsession that’s never satiated, and a

string of words that must

kiss the lips of my imagination

or no one will ever know what it is to be human.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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