I can write a book (and other things I need to remind myself of)
There are patterns to creative life, ebbs and flows. I’m starting to notice that mine are a little predictable.
I almost never write much during the summer, but as the days slowly start to get a little cooler (or just barely cooler — I do live in the desert after all!) I start to come back to writing, and thinking about writing. This year is no different, but this year I’m looking at my writing through a different lens. I’m feeling ready to get serious about my writing, and my desire to be an author, in a way that I haven’t before.
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In stillness and silence
We had a morning.
We weren’t exactly on the same page. We didn’t fight, we almost never fight, we just rubbed at each other wrong. It happens.
The morning moved at a fast and grumpy pace. Then, after Bryan’s blood draw, we had about an hour before he was scheduled to see the oncologist and get hooked up for today’s infusion. An hour with nothing to do and no where to be.
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The stories we tell: Work & Value
The stories we tell ourselves matter.
I’m pretty sure I’ve written that exact sentence multiple times on this blog. Maybe more times than I can count, but I can’t stop saying it because it needs to be said. I need to hear it again and again. Because so often we don’t realize that our brains are story making machines and we don’t recognize how much that effects.
Lately, I’ve been particularly thinking about the stories I tell myself about work and money.
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Stories we tell: Desire & Identity
I have spent a lot of my life trying not to be what I wanted to be, trying to suppress various parts of myself. I remember in High School thinking that God must have made a mistake when making me, must have gotten some wires crossed, because something just wasn’t right.
I spent a lot of my life trying not to be the bossy little girl I was reprimanded for being as a child, trying not to be the little girl who took things too seriously and personally, who was always lost in thought, but also wasn't ever thoughtful enough about other people.
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