“Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn’t measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It’s not winning battles that makes you happy, but it’s how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most,Continue reading “A Better Direction”
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Write Your Story
“If you want to change the world, write your story. If you want to heal the world, share it.” – Unknown And that’s exactly what I do. Life can make you feel helpless. It can make you feel like browbeating is your only option. But the truth is the arts are always and will alwaysContinue reading “Write Your Story”
Live Your Best Life
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” -Henry David Thoreau Life could slip right through your fingers in an instant. It’s wild to think of it. But the point is that once you gain perspective on your life and your value, it’s hard to stick around in places thatContinue reading “Live Your Best Life”
Solitude Sunday -A Place Where You Can Be Human
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” — Pablo Picasso Perfect quote for my Sunday Solitude. I dragged myself out of bed and allowed my Sunday chores to come along as slowly as I wanted them to. I stared at the sky. I listened to my daughter tell stories to my husband. I wasContinue reading “Solitude Sunday -A Place Where You Can Be Human”
If you could choose which writer would you have dinner with?
“Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed.” -UrsulaContinue reading “If you could choose which writer would you have dinner with?”
The Magic of Writing
The magic of writing comes exactly when you learn to expect it. Has this happened to you while you were writing? Have you written and then bam, it all makes complete sense in a different way than you intended? And not only that, the new way is even better? Or have you written about somethingContinue reading “The Magic of Writing”
Who Do You Write For?
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.” ― Margaret Atwood I started out writing for excellent grades. The whole grading system really gives me anxiety, probably to prove something to my past self. Honestly, I just want to learnContinue reading “Who Do You Write For?”
A Delicious Life
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” – Beatrix Potter I started following Florence Given on IG, and I adore her. She uses the word delicious when referring to things that bring us joy, even outside of food. So when I sawContinue reading “A Delicious Life”
How a WiFi Outage Inspired My Writing
My WiFi went down this week, and honestly, that’s the longest this home has been without WiFi ever! I’m telling you this because I had to write midday, and wow, did it feel great! A different type of writing comes out of me midday with a piping hot cup of Joe next to me. IfContinue reading “How a WiFi Outage Inspired My Writing”
Understanding Through Writing
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” -C. S. Lewis I like to read and understand new things, but it doesn’t end there. I agree with Lewis; writing brings my understanding to a much deeper level. I just don’t think it ends there. There’s always layers toContinue reading “Understanding Through Writing”
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