This began as my 750 Words for the day. It has been edited lightly.It's a day of laundry, staying at home, and writing. I'm listening to mid-90s music and thinking about writing and what I want to say. I wish I had jotted down some of the ideas from yesterday. A first sentence came to me, "So I ran." Reminds me vaguely of the Dark Tower series, ( Read more... )

I was going to write about how I've been away from the blogosphere for nearly a week. Instead, let's talk about fear. Let's talk about anxiety. Let's talk about how, when that takes over (and when it wins), everything else around me shuts down. Everything else around me is seen as something new to ratchet up the fear, anxiety, or pain. It's "me ( Read more... )

I have been having thoughts about music and figured that I would begin writing them down here. As you probably realize, I'm playing along with the 30 day music challenge over here, and having a blast with it. Watching
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Contemplation for April 28th, 2011
from Sakyong.com - Contemplations

While living in stressful times does not ultimately affect our enlightened qualities, it does demand that we become more engaged in awakening them.

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- I've fought it. For as long as I've gone exclusively DW. But, today, I decided to transfer all of my LJ content over here. I will continue to cross post, but my paid account over at LJ officially expired on April 14 (after how many years?), and while the paid time was extended for two weeks, due to the DDoS issues they've been experiencing, I don ( Read more... )

I have spent much of the last few days alone. Which is not a bad thing. My brain has been going full blast, though, and that can sometimes be a bad thing. Well, not *bad* - but not helpful ( Read more... )

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Prompt: Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you? (Author: Gwen Bell ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel brilliant and want to do nothing but write ( Read more... )