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Thank you to all the men (including Dad) and women who have served our country!
Even though I have the day off due to Veterans' Day, my intent is to spend the day productively working on my novel and editing my friend's novel. But first, I painted my nails, and I'm feeling awfully girlie. I normally hate my toes, which are short, and my big toe is especially fat. My first love deemed them "Grape Toes." They are a contrast to my long, slender, extremely flat feet, but I normally just hide them away under thick socks anyway.
My current beau, however, prefers I take my socks off sometimes, so even though he doesn't spend time staring at them, I've become a little more conscious of my feet. And my cuticles were looking pretty beat up and the nails were looking dull. So I decided to give myself a manicure and paint my toenails a deep magenta and my fingernails a clear coat that helps to make them shiny and healthy-looking. It's funny how a little bit of attention paid toward myself can boost the confidence--or at least help me to feel more feminine and, well, taken care of.
Speaking of doing more things for myself, I just signed up for an all-day workshop at the hospital on Monday in Creative Healing: Poetry and Medicine. The first lecture is about "The Healing Art of Poem Making" and the afternoon is spent in poetry workshops in poetic medicine. It's all led by John Fox, a published poet and certified poetry therapist. I am really excited by this, as I've done a lot of organized work with visual art and healing, while trying to forge my own path in writing and healing.
Now, it is time to get back to work. A sister-friend from college is writing a docu-novel on father and daughter relationships, and she asked me to be the "chief editor" on it. I was touched and honored, and I'm really looking forward to working more with her on the project. And of course, I need to hop back on the wagon and take the reins of my bronco of a novel, currently a chaotic array of scenes that I need to shuffle through and re-assemble back to fit the bigger picture. Off I go!
Even though I have the day off due to Veterans' Day, my intent is to spend the day productively working on my novel and editing my friend's novel. But first, I painted my nails, and I'm feeling awfully girlie. I normally hate my toes, which are short, and my big toe is especially fat. My first love deemed them "Grape Toes." They are a contrast to my long, slender, extremely flat feet, but I normally just hide them away under thick socks anyway.
My current beau, however, prefers I take my socks off sometimes, so even though he doesn't spend time staring at them, I've become a little more conscious of my feet. And my cuticles were looking pretty beat up and the nails were looking dull. So I decided to give myself a manicure and paint my toenails a deep magenta and my fingernails a clear coat that helps to make them shiny and healthy-looking. It's funny how a little bit of attention paid toward myself can boost the confidence--or at least help me to feel more feminine and, well, taken care of.
Speaking of doing more things for myself, I just signed up for an all-day workshop at the hospital on Monday in Creative Healing: Poetry and Medicine. The first lecture is about "The Healing Art of Poem Making" and the afternoon is spent in poetry workshops in poetic medicine. It's all led by John Fox, a published poet and certified poetry therapist. I am really excited by this, as I've done a lot of organized work with visual art and healing, while trying to forge my own path in writing and healing.
Now, it is time to get back to work. A sister-friend from college is writing a docu-novel on father and daughter relationships, and she asked me to be the "chief editor" on it. I was touched and honored, and I'm really looking forward to working more with her on the project. And of course, I need to hop back on the wagon and take the reins of my bronco of a novel, currently a chaotic array of scenes that I need to shuffle through and re-assemble back to fit the bigger picture. Off I go!