Ladies this is for You

-Ladies this is for You-

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.” – Carolyn See

This is inspiring to me today. The world goes round and round, but when a woman writes, the story changes. I value the voice of women. I think they have been unheard long enough. I think women should have more opportunities, time, and money to spend on themselves and with other women. I believe that if we invested in our women so that they can thrive, they would heal the world.

Ladies, have you given yourself time or money lately? I felt terrible learning to go on those artist dates. I even stopped for a while but now, Sunday is a hot date with myself that I’m committed to. Let it get easier to love you.

Needed this Poem

Quest

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The phantom happiness I sought
   O’er every crag and moor;
I paused at every postern gate,
And knocked at every door;  

In vain I searched the land and sea,
E’en to the inmost core,
The curtains of eternal night
   Descend—my search is o’er.

This poem hit home for me because I had a brief moment today where I felt anxiety about not being where I want to be. I had to reassess and get back into my present moment. Happiness is in the present. Plans are great, but they aren’t the deciding factor. for my happiness. I am the deciding factor. What do I have right now that I don’t need to search out? Talking myself through that and putting on some random tunes got me back on track.

How are your life plans?

Details

“If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.” – Ernest Hemingway

There’s plenty of words to add intimate details, but it’s the feeling you want to convey. Tiny details are great. I appreciate well-timed details that pace the story, but at the same time, details can take away from the story too.

What do you think about detail?

Now Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming

This weekend was jam-packed with celebrating my husband’s birthday and our anniversary. Now I’m tired from trying to keep up. I’m excited that this is my last year in my thirties. I look forward to growing older and wiser. The way to a good life surely is good friends and family. I wouldn’t trade any of em for the world. They are so incredibly valuable to me.

Words have Power

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

“The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them to walls and use them to patch holes in my heart and my thighs and the small of my back -the place he never brushed to gently guide me -a girl unguided -picking up rocks to leave a trail for no one to nowhere -But up is somewhere -I can’t leave rocks -gravity -That’s why I leave words.” -Saschia

Letting Go

My inner work this week is to focus on letting go of old beliefs.

It feels like I’m walking in uncharted territory. It took me a couple of weeks to get into a new routine, but I think I’ve gotten a good idea of my energy levels along with the actions I’m ready to focus on. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the administrative end of a nonprofit, it’s that things can come along slowly, especially with a smaller workforce. Since I’m on a new path in uncharted territory, that means old ways can be released and left back where they originated. I hope innovative ideas for sustainability come my way.

How are you with letting go of old beliefs?

The Forces of My Writing

The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them to walls and use them to patch holes in my heart and my thighs and the small of my back -the place he never brushed to gently guide me -a girl unguided -picking up rocks to leave a trail for no one to nowhere -but up is some where -I just cant leave rocks -that’s why I leave words.

About Reading and Writing

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost

My first question, is there such thing as too many surprises? I like surprises, but I also like to know things. I do appreciate a good surprise cry in a story. oh. I really like when I’m so interested in what’s going to happen that I can’t stop reading. Now that I’m writing this, I’m realizing I’m due for a nice long reading session where I read, eat, read again, nap, and finally read again hopefully to the end of the story.

What’s the last book you read?

My last read was The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

James Baldwin

“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

Sometimes James Baldwin hits the nail right on the head; this quote is one of those moments. His understanding of the human experience, the written word, and the words that come out of his mouth are all so poetic. Not that he’s perfect, but he says things that inspire me to be a better writer.

Who inspires you to write?

George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there’s going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don’t know how many branches it’s going to have, they find out as it grows. And I’m much more a gardener than an architect.” – George R.R. Martin

This is such a great description of the two types of writers out there. For those planters out there, what seeds are you planting? I planted an experimental fiction seed, and it’s a toss-up between horror or historical fiction later. But who knows, maybe it will be full-blown nonfiction.