Good morning! Hope you are having an insight-full day. In other words, hope the light is as bright and clear inside as it is outside on this cloudless summer morning. As I posted a few days ago, I’ve been reviewing my journal entries of 2002. Doing this review work is by far the most exciting […]
Writing Prayerfully Every Day
I attended the Heart-t-Heart online meeting this morning, and as always was so blessed by the experience. Here’s what I shared about the tool (gift) of writing: Hi, Colleen here in beautiful Cache Valley, UT. I would like to share on the tool of writing and how it has become such a tool of sanity […]
Hanging Out on the Page
WRITING, just hanging out on the page Not reporting, or performing or anything else. Just “hanging out.” I think hanging out is one of the most neglected arts in human life. I think it’s one of the healthiest things we can do–mentally, physically and spiritually. Just be. Not with any adjective attached to it. Just be. […]
Keyboard or Pen?
When I journal, I keep skipping back and forth between wanting to use a pen and wanting to use this keyboard. I can certainly write faster on the keyboard, but not with as much expression. It is a constant struggle in me. I want to let go of the struggle. What is the root of […]
Write What You Hear
Good writing is at its very best when it is full of sensory words that let our reader see and hear and smell and feel on their skin what we, or our characters, are feeling. Some time ago, I took a great class that required this exercise: Write what you hear. First, write a “bullet list” of […]
My Voice Without Fear
What does my REAL voice sound like? My real voice is whatever I REALLY feel without fear. It’s what I say when I speak without fear of anyone or anything. That is my real voice, when I sing out my heart like the songbird that sings simply because it is— without fear, without hesitancy. Singing at […]
Writing Helps Me Possess My Soul
Writing helps me slow down and allows me to possess my soul (my thoughts, feelings, life experiences and perceptions) with patience. When I take time to record the passing of my hours, I become so aware of how full and rich those hours are. I am in conscious contact with my life, with my self, with […]
Learning from One of the Best
Over the last few days I have read Linda Joy Myers memoir, Don’t Call Me Mother. It has been such a beneficial experience for me–a blessing from God, with intent behind it. The blessing has been to see several different techniques used and not just expounded about. Those techniques are: • alternating happier and sadder […]
An Honest Look at the Past, Present and Future
All the forms of personal life writing listed in an earlier post have one thing in common. They help you get in touch with things that you need to be honest about and confront things you’re using up your psychic energy to avoid. This is equally true, whether those things are in your past, in […]
Why Write?
Why write? Why? Why breathe? You might as well ask me that question. Or why exist? I write because it is an act of love. It is an act of claiming my life. It is an act of doing that I can’t live without doing. I write because I cherish each day. I’m so grateful […]