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Journaling Techniques & Prompts
Follow your bliss, if you can find it.
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they … Continue reading Follow your bliss, if you can find it.
New Writing and Wellness Center Opens
New Writing and Wellness Center Opens By: Joanna Young, Reporter for Wisdom Within, Ink Rutland, Vermont: In the midst of Rutland City, there is a tiny haven. It stands behind a fence on a residential street and started life as a garage. However, it now heeds a higher calling. The Writer's Refuge is a place … Continue reading New Writing and Wellness Center Opens
Steppingstones to a new life
Yesterday morning in my journal I wrote: I am blessed with abundance. I am blessed with the answer. I am a magnet to all the resources I need. What is the answer? I need to know what path to go down today. This morning I wrote: Oh, lawd! I feel like a puzzle piece just … Continue reading Steppingstones to a new life
Put the lime in the coconut
It finally turned warm (again) this weekend. Two weeks ago I got a sunburn, one week ago I was scraping snow off the car and today I am sitting by an open window trying to get some air while the sky threatens a thunder storm. That kind of dramatic weather change not only messes with … Continue reading Put the lime in the coconut
Quoting Natalie: Getting close to our genuine self
Writing is about getting close to our genuine self and the authentic way we see. - Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning When I a junior in high school my journal was a chunky spiral-bound notebook with '1988' written in big black bubble letters on the cover. I don't recall much of what I wrote but … Continue reading Quoting Natalie: Getting close to our genuine self
A journaling resource
Below is a copy of the index page at my little corner of Examiner.com where I am the Burlington Journaling Examiner (which really cracks me up - as if there are "journaling examiners" anywhere else in the world, let alone Vermont!). I share this list as a simple menu for any blog readers whose order … Continue reading A journaling resource
Quoting Natalie: Tolerating fear
"First recognize that you're afraid and slowly build your tolerance for fear... ... You may still feel it, but you become willing to bear it as you write. You keep your hand moving, you stay there, you move closer and closer to the edge of what scares you." - Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning I … Continue reading Quoting Natalie: Tolerating fear
Sharing your light
I have a friend who used to volunteer as a reading tutor. Her Christmas letter informing me there is nothing as gratifying as helping another person sent me into a self-indulgent, self-hate-fest. I used to complain to my journal or Hubby that I never did anything to help anyone else. I had no desire to … Continue reading Sharing your light
Simplifying, one (beautiful) dish at a time
Last week our dishwasher began rinsing with chunky, mustard-yellow water which then pooled in the bottom of the machine. Hubby attempted to fix the problem to no avail and I descended into minor panic mode. I can't keep on top of the endless piles of dishes, pots, and cutlery as it is and now I … Continue reading Simplifying, one (beautiful) dish at a time
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