One of my favorite points of the year is the "verge of new Year"....the week leading into New Years day. It has been many years since I celebrated New Years in any special fashion. It was always a tradition for me to go out on New Years Eve. I do actually regret letting go of my New Years Celebrations because I really did enjoy them. I would go out on New Years eve...paint the town red...freeze! and then celebrate New Years Day by meeting up with all my friends for a Breakfast to ring in the New Year together. This was a tradition I loved. But my transient lifestyle really caused me to lose out on this.
I think this year, in addition to seeing improvements to my financial and business sectors, I would like to strive to be a better connector. I am a natural maven. I know about people and things and what's going on and where, and I do connect people with things...all the time. something I do less of then I wish I did is to have the kinds of moments, celebrations and occassions that I genuinely love rather than the ones I feel obligated to. I have already made a few adjustments in that area, but I must really get there and be organized and clear-minded.
My viral conditions cause me to have periods of high energy and periods where I am totally zapped of energy and enthusiasm. A person can fake it if they must but when I am zapped, I am really tired, cranky and sore. I have physical, emotional and mental symptoms altogether and at once. They come up quickly and with little to identify them early. These lulls can last a day or two or even a week or two. When I have a long stretch this can be difficult and even costly for me. I have been trying some holistic approaches for treatment and I feel very happy about it. I prefer to use vitamins, dietary changes, fluids and organic topical solutions too. These have greatly enhanced my life and also have been beneficial in making me feel the necessary connection to my illnesses. It is a simple but important reminder that our bodies as a whole are our complete and total responsibility. My viruses ( I carry 2 that are problematic for me) will be with me for life.
Pretty much every person I have ever met in my life has a health issue that troubles them...every single one of us in the world. Some people's problems are simple compared to others. I mean, if you suffer from recurring acne, it bothers you, right? But it's not nearly as serious as being a diabetic who needs daily insulin. But for the person with the acne, it affects their life and how they treat themselves or feel about themselves or others. Every person and every condition they have that needs addressing is significant. I have become a lot more sensitive to others medical needs than I ever was before. There was a time in my life when I really thought whatever I was going through was the most difficult thing in the world. I realize now how wrong that was!
I cannot say enough good things about Holistic living though. There are so many benefits to choosing organic food, vitamins, non-chemical products, etc. I mean, I love my perfumes. But since I like to spritz, I make a few modifications so that I can enjoy them without overburdening my body with toxins. For example, when I cleanse, I use handmade Natural Soaps that contain only all-natural ingredients and are pure. I moisturize with a lightweight oil and spot treat dry areas with a heavier cream or medicated one if needed. This eliminates a lot of chemicals I could be layering and clogging my pores with. This way, when I spritz my beloved fragrances, I have fewer chemicals to be absorbed. I also spritz my clothes, particularly my scarves, instead of my skin. My scarf stays close to my neck and heart and allows the fragrance to work with my body temperature while not sitting directly on my skin. It's a little cheat. I should switch to natural oils, but I really love that Burberry!
When I feel low in energy, the first, very first thing I do, is to drink an entire bottled water and take one to two chewable vitamin C tablets. I also have several other daily supplements that I take immediately when I have that lull. Perhaps I am not consistent in taking them daily for prevention, but I automatically go to them when I need to readjust.
Whatever works for you...keep at it. Whatever needs adjustment, beleive in it! I am thinking of all my friends today who are sick or who need encouragement...with love. 2012 is going to be an amazing year, so get ready! I am....
~namaste
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Anonimity
Being anonymous is something to ponder at this particular time of year. I have been hearing stories lately about people doing nice things for others and paying off layaways and giving generously to charities. Being anonymous is an idea that is biblical. Jesus told his disciples to give freely and do not let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. This means, it is not about you or about receiving recognition but rather assuring that others have what they need and want and love.
Sometimes life feels like you are living in a fishbowl. Everyone can always see what you are doing. But I migh observe that we ought to be more concerned with what we are feeling, understanding that other people can also see that! In particular, what we are feeling about ourselves or about those around us or our jobs. We represent ourselves through our feelings and so it is good to check in on that occassionally and see what our image shows to others about us.
I enjoy my social media outlets, but I feel the need to be out of the public eye more and so I will be leaving facebook soon.
Sometimes life feels like you are living in a fishbowl. Everyone can always see what you are doing. But I migh observe that we ought to be more concerned with what we are feeling, understanding that other people can also see that! In particular, what we are feeling about ourselves or about those around us or our jobs. We represent ourselves through our feelings and so it is good to check in on that occassionally and see what our image shows to others about us.
I enjoy my social media outlets, but I feel the need to be out of the public eye more and so I will be leaving facebook soon.
Monday, December 19, 2011
2011, Reflections on a year
If I were to pick any icon for this year, it would have to be the Wheel of Fortune.
The wheel has the direction and the direction has movement...it is always shifting or spinning or adjusting, bringing things into focus and out of focus. Who benefits from this great wheel? The Lucky one will benefit but there is no whimsy. One does not acquire luck at complete random. We can control that somewhat. We are great creators in the likeness of all Creation and The Light and therefore we are not always subject to whatever the wind may blow. We are in fact, connected to it!
Letting my Light Shine, has been the Theme of 2011.
Becoming a Creator
This year, I went from being pitiful and foolish to being a creative force that is gaining strength. I ditched some old ideas and moved ahead in life and as I enter 2012, I have a lot of work already to do. I feel no need to set resolutions because I am already resolute and what I am doing is already gathering speed and movement of its own.
January was very slow...prodding at best. February brought changes in my relationship and status regarding my daughter, Annika. March proved to us all that we can accept amazing gifts in life and that we can be worthy. April showed me that even those worthy and hard-working need to humble themselves enough to face difficult truths. May started off on a note of disappointment...when I was able to see that being good at something is not enough. You have to be passionate about it! June foreshadowed July, when death met us and reminded us that he never sleeps. Simmering home troubles were all to happy to dominate and I ended July feeling stronger from the arguments that earlier left me sore. In August, I just shined. It was my birthday and a time of great meditation. I had great financial earnnings and a busy social life. September was interesting. September a lot of things changed. I lost a few friends who I am better off without. I told a few people some hard truths that they are better off for knowing. I helped my daughter adjust to some difficult things. I disowned my Dad, a long overdue move. My blessing in September was that I got my first writing gig. October was a lot of work but worth every moment. November nearly breezed past without notice. Many wonderful moments of growth and shared joys and sadness and working together. December started slow with Mercury in Retrograde but picked up steam with a burst around the 15th.I learned that relationships require work. I have no desire for fickle relationships and anyone who is fickle or does not truly care about me can leave. I am willing to put in 100% toward my relationships but if I do not feel it reciprocated, then that person can leave and I will let them leave. We are in full expansion as the year draw to a close.
I changed a lot of things this year about myself. I changed my lifestyle, effectively improved it. I changed my haircut and color and now I love it. I modified my lifestyle, particularly my social circle (if only in realizing who needs to be where in my life and who does not). These improvements are my crown. My crown for the year. I shall wear it from now until December 31st at midnight, after which I shall tuck it away (like these words) and pick up my shovel and my sword and keep working. Now is the time to celebrate, and cherish, and LOVE each moment that has been 2011.
To all of you, to my loyal readers, to my friends, to my loves, THANK YOU.
~namaste~
The wheel has the direction and the direction has movement...it is always shifting or spinning or adjusting, bringing things into focus and out of focus. Who benefits from this great wheel? The Lucky one will benefit but there is no whimsy. One does not acquire luck at complete random. We can control that somewhat. We are great creators in the likeness of all Creation and The Light and therefore we are not always subject to whatever the wind may blow. We are in fact, connected to it!
Letting my Light Shine, has been the Theme of 2011.
Becoming a Creator
This year, I went from being pitiful and foolish to being a creative force that is gaining strength. I ditched some old ideas and moved ahead in life and as I enter 2012, I have a lot of work already to do. I feel no need to set resolutions because I am already resolute and what I am doing is already gathering speed and movement of its own.
January was very slow...prodding at best. February brought changes in my relationship and status regarding my daughter, Annika. March proved to us all that we can accept amazing gifts in life and that we can be worthy. April showed me that even those worthy and hard-working need to humble themselves enough to face difficult truths. May started off on a note of disappointment...when I was able to see that being good at something is not enough. You have to be passionate about it! June foreshadowed July, when death met us and reminded us that he never sleeps. Simmering home troubles were all to happy to dominate and I ended July feeling stronger from the arguments that earlier left me sore. In August, I just shined. It was my birthday and a time of great meditation. I had great financial earnnings and a busy social life. September was interesting. September a lot of things changed. I lost a few friends who I am better off without. I told a few people some hard truths that they are better off for knowing. I helped my daughter adjust to some difficult things. I disowned my Dad, a long overdue move. My blessing in September was that I got my first writing gig. October was a lot of work but worth every moment. November nearly breezed past without notice. Many wonderful moments of growth and shared joys and sadness and working together. December started slow with Mercury in Retrograde but picked up steam with a burst around the 15th.I learned that relationships require work. I have no desire for fickle relationships and anyone who is fickle or does not truly care about me can leave. I am willing to put in 100% toward my relationships but if I do not feel it reciprocated, then that person can leave and I will let them leave. We are in full expansion as the year draw to a close.
I changed a lot of things this year about myself. I changed my lifestyle, effectively improved it. I changed my haircut and color and now I love it. I modified my lifestyle, particularly my social circle (if only in realizing who needs to be where in my life and who does not). These improvements are my crown. My crown for the year. I shall wear it from now until December 31st at midnight, after which I shall tuck it away (like these words) and pick up my shovel and my sword and keep working. Now is the time to celebrate, and cherish, and LOVE each moment that has been 2011.
To all of you, to my loyal readers, to my friends, to my loves, THANK YOU.
~namaste~
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Correcting Past Mistakes
This is a difficult part of life but one we all must accept. I do not live in regret, I am not that type of person. I simply say, I am wrong and I must change. When we are teens and we are rebellious, there is no way to hear reason. The longer we stay stubborn like that or stuck in "my way is best" mode, the longer it takes us to correct (correction)...to make corrections. This idea of Correction is from kabbalah. To learn more about this, visit www.ukabbalah.com
Correction and Restriction are the key points of kabbalah. These are a common thread existing within most religious beliefs, like Christianity. But in my life I have absorbed it in, as if by osmosis. I believe in it. I believe we all are designed to have desire but choose restriction and when we are going the wrong way, to use correction.
Anyway, as for my own correction, I am feeling troubled and I am using meditation and faith to begin making correct some of the things I have done wrong, or allowed that just are wrong. The reason I do not live in regret and never would allow such words is that it would make illegitimate all that was created from the union that I now seek to dissolve. All that existed was not bad or wrong. But clearly, I made choices at the wrong time...when I was not ready to make them. This was my major failure that I now must bear the consequences of. I do not however, have to continue on a path that is leading me to sadness, depression, loss of self-worth, mental abuse, emotional abuse etc.
I have more faith and power inside then I give myself credit for. Whatever comes, I am more than equipped to handle it. For some reason, I continuously fail to recognize my personal power. My power comes from asking The Light for help. First, admitting I need the help and asking to be the Vessel for goodness to flow through me, not to be just given to me, but for me to be used to deliver it outwardly. This is what I desire.
Each day that passes I am aware that I am less angry about what I saw, what I discovered and what my 5 senses delivered to me. But inside, I remain Certain of what my extra sensory perception is telling me...what my intuition just knows. I often find that I know things about others...about what they will say or do, about what they did say and do, about what they are thinking and even the moment they change their minds about something they previously thought or about doing something they were going to do. I can almost see the movement of energy as if with my eyes, but it is a mental picture. Because of this ability, I feel it is unfair to dwell on the physical evidence when I know there are deeper reasons for all things. I choose to focus my actions on the basis of those deeper reasons.
I do not want to merely exist
Correction and Restriction are the key points of kabbalah. These are a common thread existing within most religious beliefs, like Christianity. But in my life I have absorbed it in, as if by osmosis. I believe in it. I believe we all are designed to have desire but choose restriction and when we are going the wrong way, to use correction.
Anyway, as for my own correction, I am feeling troubled and I am using meditation and faith to begin making correct some of the things I have done wrong, or allowed that just are wrong. The reason I do not live in regret and never would allow such words is that it would make illegitimate all that was created from the union that I now seek to dissolve. All that existed was not bad or wrong. But clearly, I made choices at the wrong time...when I was not ready to make them. This was my major failure that I now must bear the consequences of. I do not however, have to continue on a path that is leading me to sadness, depression, loss of self-worth, mental abuse, emotional abuse etc.
I have more faith and power inside then I give myself credit for. Whatever comes, I am more than equipped to handle it. For some reason, I continuously fail to recognize my personal power. My power comes from asking The Light for help. First, admitting I need the help and asking to be the Vessel for goodness to flow through me, not to be just given to me, but for me to be used to deliver it outwardly. This is what I desire.
Each day that passes I am aware that I am less angry about what I saw, what I discovered and what my 5 senses delivered to me. But inside, I remain Certain of what my extra sensory perception is telling me...what my intuition just knows. I often find that I know things about others...about what they will say or do, about what they did say and do, about what they are thinking and even the moment they change their minds about something they previously thought or about doing something they were going to do. I can almost see the movement of energy as if with my eyes, but it is a mental picture. Because of this ability, I feel it is unfair to dwell on the physical evidence when I know there are deeper reasons for all things. I choose to focus my actions on the basis of those deeper reasons.
I do not want to merely existin a physical way. I desire to be The Light...for my kids, friends, family and people who I do not yet know. If True Love is meant for me, then I must believe it will present itself. I will not need to go looking for it.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Inventing Yourself
Inventing our primary self happens autonomically. It requires no effort but allowing so-called "nature" to take it's course. But some astute individuals will realize that there can only be true happiness and true success, if we purposefully set about to create the life, the image and the reality we desire. I am grateful that our universe has been designed in just this way. That as long as I have life left in me, I have another moment to create, recreate or adjust my reality, my picture, my life.
Like this blossoming lotus, I can open myself up to the world...I can allow some of it in. But I am delicate too and easily affected by the harshness that sometimes accompanies openning. The exterior of the lotus is where it is fragile. Under the surface however, exists the bulb which can produce regrowth and can go on and on and reinvent herself in a new blossom.
It is vital to all people that they purposely set their course, rather than drift about aimlessly until they end up somewhere they are not fond of. In my future, I have imagined many fine things. Some of these things are probably a long way off from appearing but they will appear. My question for myself right now is a simple one:
WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE?
If I am going to receive the wealth of blessings that I surely will receive, what am I willing to give?
I have been answering this question for a while. It is a hard question...one posed by the author of "Think and Grow Rich". Whatever you desire comes form a give and receive relationship. If you plan to receive a blessing in your lifetime, or just to achieve what you conceive...you must offer as much in return or more! I have a lot to offer the world. I often get caught up in my baser desires and this is where the majority of us stay..exist...live. Not me. Not anymore. Not for the past 6 months since I learned this about myself. So where does that leave me?
My journey is more of a quest. I am in search of the Truth. I realize we live in difficult times. People around me have many fears and some have serious weaknesses. Some have a combination of the two. We are all afraid of something, but we must keep on making the effort regardless. We must feel the fear and do it anyway. We must face the unknown with courage, and yes it is ok to be afraid of the outcome. It is frightening. Many people I know have found themselves forced to this precipice where they had to accept circumstances that were beyond their control and not what they desired. In my case, I am the one about to cause another human being to face this and it will hurt that person...me and a few others too. So we are all going to feel the pain together but it must be done.
In a few months, I imagine life will be looking very different. We will all be living very differently than how we live now. I have so few words on this. There just are no words. For now I will focus my writing outward because inside there is a lot of dullness.
~namaste
It is vital to all people that they purposely set their course, rather than drift about aimlessly until they end up somewhere they are not fond of. In my future, I have imagined many fine things. Some of these things are probably a long way off from appearing but they will appear. My question for myself right now is a simple one:
WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE?
If I am going to receive the wealth of blessings that I surely will receive, what am I willing to give?
I have been answering this question for a while. It is a hard question...one posed by the author of "Think and Grow Rich". Whatever you desire comes form a give and receive relationship. If you plan to receive a blessing in your lifetime, or just to achieve what you conceive...you must offer as much in return or more! I have a lot to offer the world. I often get caught up in my baser desires and this is where the majority of us stay..exist...live. Not me. Not anymore. Not for the past 6 months since I learned this about myself. So where does that leave me?
In a few months, I imagine life will be looking very different. We will all be living very differently than how we live now. I have so few words on this. There just are no words. For now I will focus my writing outward because inside there is a lot of dullness.
~namaste
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Oh, how I love WORDS
I am forcing myself to create a blog entry today. I love to write, maybe I ought to write about loving to write! Ok, I will. Here goes:
I just perused my blog entries and read one from January 2011. In that particular entry I am mundanely recapping the upsets of the week and capitulating about hopes and dreams and goals. It seems so funny to me that a year ago I was that way. I am such a different person now. It is so vital and necessary to me that I DO NOT focus on sharing the negatives or the troubles but rather that I focus firmly on the positive. For this reason I have stopped watching the news. But I digress...we have found a subject and we must stay on it! I love to write.
This week I read 2 books. I believe that if you are to have any hope of writing something good, or any hope of writing something that will inspire people, you must study such things by reading what has been written already. I read "The old man and the sea" by Ernest Hemigway and also I am still reading "Think and grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. Nothing is new under the sun and all has been done before. It is necessary that we continue to repeat the process, for much like exercise of the physical body, the repetition of our most desired virtues creates strength, not for the body but for the soul. Any and all writing that is good should speak directly to the soul, not just have a symetry or balance in it's physicality. So I seek to inspire and have found many forums to allow that to develop. These are my great successes to date and I plan for greater still to come!
With the support and teamwork of my friends Bob, Sam and Berta, I am endeavoring to work with a small and strong core network of personal development believers. We call our group, "Conceive, Believe Achieve", or CBA for short. Our group exists as an internet community that meets once per month and also uses conference calling to discuss literature and other personal development techniques.
Another source for my inspiration and creativity to flow and do it's work is in the very place it always has been...my family and home. At home I still invite families to leave their children with me while they work so that they may have peace of mind that their child is not a cog in the daycare machine, losing their precious developmental moments under the observance of apathetic childcare workers. Here in my home, their children are fed both physically and spiritually in that they are loved and respected. I do not hesitate to treat them as I would my own children in order to assist them toward understanding the world they live in and how they exist within it.
My own daughter is an Actress, and at certain times her schedule dominates our day. I journal her performances, manage her blog and other social media presence. I support her by driving her to auditions and casting calls, writing her resume and updating all her vital documentation like photos, portfolio and resume. When it comes time to juggle and adjust and get her places, we manage...if barely.
My son is a preschooler who needs to be educated and this I do as well from home during the regular course of governing the daycare here at my home. He is 3 and a half, can spell his name, his sister's name, mom and dad. He has learned to write (not well enough to be read yet) his name as LEX. He reads letters everywhere and asks what they mean. He counts. He is very clever and a good student and a good boy. He makes my job fairly easy.
In the winter of 2010 into 2011, I created this blog and then one about Annika's acting career, and then one about Lex. This fall I created a fourth about my passion, Walt Disney World Florida. I also joined another blog forum where I visit infrequently. I use facebook and twitter to advertise my blogs and I monetize my blogs using google adsense. I am not a techy and am fairly not internet-savvy but I get by. My blogs brought me to my most recent passion...BLOG WRITING. I spent the summer creating romance stories and trying my hand at a handbook for childcare. I seem to have a lot of failure ideas. When I recap them, they make me laugh. Failure makes me laugh...as if it will stop me! No, I persist in doling out my special brand of sunshine and stories and it landed me an awesome freelance writing job. I could not be more happy about anything. I love doing this. I am including a link below where some of my work can be read.
http://thehairshaman.com/ I wrote the entries entitled: "Your practical guide to the moon"
"Thicker Fuller Hair"
"Thoughts of 2012"
I am so proud to be seen on The Hair Shaman page.
http://morroccomethod.com/blog/ I have written so many that have appeared here, I must go through and gather the titles. More recently, I have written the blogs titled,
"Bad Hair day? Difficult hair type?"
"Fascination with color"
"shampoo daily? worry no more"
"Love your curls again (or for the first time)"
"Three words...handmade natural soaps"
and there were about 20 more.
Working as a freelance writer has been the answer to a lifelong desire I have had since about age 8. My first really major piece of literature was a first-hand documentation of the events of Hurricane Gloria when I was around 10years old. It has been lost and never to be recovered but was about 30 pages handwritten. I had some published poetry in high school. I stopped writing and submitting when one day I walked into my grandma's and found one of my mournful laments pinned up on her refrigerator. I guess a friend saw the name and cut it from the local paper and mailed it to her with a note that said, "is this your grandaughter"? Um...YES...until she DIED OF EMBARRASSMENT. Grammi still has that stupid poem up on the fridge 18 years later!
A few years back I started a children's story for fourth grade reading level. But it didn't go far...it felt a little familiar and forced. The ideas were not flowing. I created two impressive essays that I submitted to LHJ and Readers Digest. I never heard anything back from them but I knew they were good. So I focus on keeping my writing skills sharp and hopefully improve them by keeping these vaious personal blogs to practice my styles.
As we close the year of 2011, I find myself having a unique focal point. Retrospect...reflection of a great year. This has been a trying and challenging and particularly up-and-down year for me. In another blog I will discuss that further but for now I will close with something inspiring.
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin"
anon dear friends, anon
I just perused my blog entries and read one from January 2011. In that particular entry I am mundanely recapping the upsets of the week and capitulating about hopes and dreams and goals. It seems so funny to me that a year ago I was that way. I am such a different person now. It is so vital and necessary to me that I DO NOT focus on sharing the negatives or the troubles but rather that I focus firmly on the positive. For this reason I have stopped watching the news. But I digress...we have found a subject and we must stay on it! I love to write.
This week I read 2 books. I believe that if you are to have any hope of writing something good, or any hope of writing something that will inspire people, you must study such things by reading what has been written already. I read "The old man and the sea" by Ernest Hemigway and also I am still reading "Think and grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. Nothing is new under the sun and all has been done before. It is necessary that we continue to repeat the process, for much like exercise of the physical body, the repetition of our most desired virtues creates strength, not for the body but for the soul. Any and all writing that is good should speak directly to the soul, not just have a symetry or balance in it's physicality. So I seek to inspire and have found many forums to allow that to develop. These are my great successes to date and I plan for greater still to come!
Another source for my inspiration and creativity to flow and do it's work is in the very place it always has been...my family and home. At home I still invite families to leave their children with me while they work so that they may have peace of mind that their child is not a cog in the daycare machine, losing their precious developmental moments under the observance of apathetic childcare workers. Here in my home, their children are fed both physically and spiritually in that they are loved and respected. I do not hesitate to treat them as I would my own children in order to assist them toward understanding the world they live in and how they exist within it.
My own daughter is an Actress, and at certain times her schedule dominates our day. I journal her performances, manage her blog and other social media presence. I support her by driving her to auditions and casting calls, writing her resume and updating all her vital documentation like photos, portfolio and resume. When it comes time to juggle and adjust and get her places, we manage...if barely.
My son is a preschooler who needs to be educated and this I do as well from home during the regular course of governing the daycare here at my home. He is 3 and a half, can spell his name, his sister's name, mom and dad. He has learned to write (not well enough to be read yet) his name as LEX. He reads letters everywhere and asks what they mean. He counts. He is very clever and a good student and a good boy. He makes my job fairly easy.
In the winter of 2010 into 2011, I created this blog and then one about Annika's acting career, and then one about Lex. This fall I created a fourth about my passion, Walt Disney World Florida. I also joined another blog forum where I visit infrequently. I use facebook and twitter to advertise my blogs and I monetize my blogs using google adsense. I am not a techy and am fairly not internet-savvy but I get by. My blogs brought me to my most recent passion...BLOG WRITING. I spent the summer creating romance stories and trying my hand at a handbook for childcare. I seem to have a lot of failure ideas. When I recap them, they make me laugh. Failure makes me laugh...as if it will stop me! No, I persist in doling out my special brand of sunshine and stories and it landed me an awesome freelance writing job. I could not be more happy about anything. I love doing this. I am including a link below where some of my work can be read.
http://thehairshaman.com/ I wrote the entries entitled: "Your practical guide to the moon"
"Thicker Fuller Hair"
"Thoughts of 2012"
I am so proud to be seen on The Hair Shaman page.
http://morroccomethod.com/blog/ I have written so many that have appeared here, I must go through and gather the titles. More recently, I have written the blogs titled,
"Bad Hair day? Difficult hair type?"
"Fascination with color"
"shampoo daily? worry no more"
"Love your curls again (or for the first time)"
"Three words...handmade natural soaps"
and there were about 20 more.
Working as a freelance writer has been the answer to a lifelong desire I have had since about age 8. My first really major piece of literature was a first-hand documentation of the events of Hurricane Gloria when I was around 10years old. It has been lost and never to be recovered but was about 30 pages handwritten. I had some published poetry in high school. I stopped writing and submitting when one day I walked into my grandma's and found one of my mournful laments pinned up on her refrigerator. I guess a friend saw the name and cut it from the local paper and mailed it to her with a note that said, "is this your grandaughter"? Um...YES...until she DIED OF EMBARRASSMENT. Grammi still has that stupid poem up on the fridge 18 years later!
A few years back I started a children's story for fourth grade reading level. But it didn't go far...it felt a little familiar and forced. The ideas were not flowing. I created two impressive essays that I submitted to LHJ and Readers Digest. I never heard anything back from them but I knew they were good. So I focus on keeping my writing skills sharp and hopefully improve them by keeping these vaious personal blogs to practice my styles.
As we close the year of 2011, I find myself having a unique focal point. Retrospect...reflection of a great year. This has been a trying and challenging and particularly up-and-down year for me. In another blog I will discuss that further but for now I will close with something inspiring.
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin"
anon dear friends, anon
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