I Write By Hand…
Pen and paper…I can edit on the computer. I can transcribe into Scrivener and Word. But when it comes to creating, I’ve got to do things the old fashioned way. For me, new ideas and new scenes flow...
View ArticleAccepting the Struggle
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth. There is a choice to struggle, to resist, or to accept....
View ArticleAccepting the…Bad?
“If you find your here and now intolerable…you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.” Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now I planned to write this post...
View ArticleAcceptance, Recognition, and Aimee Rouski
“I’ve always been okay with the stuff that has happened to me, but some people have real difficulties accepting these things so I just want to say this. No one will know unless you tell them. People...
View ArticleRecognize the Good, Accept the Good
Just as we need to recognize when there is a bad situation, we also need to recognize the good – or what we would label as good – even in during difficult times. “Bad turns to good through the power of...
View ArticleAcceptance: Speak Out
To complain is always nonacceptance of what it…When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out...
View ArticleAccepting a New Plan
I needed a plan. I was on board with being Present, but I could not imagine a new future. I drew a blank. There were a lot of blank moments. Anything more complicated than, what am I going to have for...
View ArticleDisarm: Anthology as Action
Any action is often better than no action. ~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now What happens when you’ve contacted your representatives, signed petitions, argued with people you haven’t seen since high...
View ArticleRead This
Read this book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. “An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates Read...
View ArticleAccepting Second Opinions
Suzy Cat gives her opinion of my chapter rewrite. #amwriting #litfic #handwriting #handwritten #writers #cats #blackcat #catsandwriters Nothing wrong with a second opinion. Or third. Or fourth. Writers...
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…the possibility of having what we want…Shataki Gawain Sometimes, it happens. Accept it when it does.
View ArticleAcceptance: Sometimes it Happens
…the possibility of having what we want…Shataki Gawain Sometimes, it happens. Accept it when it does.
View ArticleSpeak. Honestly.
Stop feeling like we need to be nice. That we need to be polite. That we’ll hurt someone’s feelings instead of being honest. Let go of the guilt. TY @glennondoylemelton! #speak #lovewarrior
View ArticleHen Love, Acceptance, and Stillness
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside: it is deep within you…In the stillness of your presence…you can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature…this...
View ArticleSmall Steps. First Steps. And Coffee.
“Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want…If in the midst of...
View ArticleAccepting Happiness
Happiness does not mean easy. –Sheila Lamb (me. I said that.) I’m exhausted. I’m posting the handwritten blog.
View ArticleLove is a State of Being
Love is a state of Being…you can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.– Eckhart Tolle
View ArticleSharing Goodness
Once we begin to learn to accept the goodness…we naturally want to share it as well…Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization
View ArticleTerrible Teachers, Writing, and the Tao
It was one of those Monday mornings.I didn’t want to read my Monday dose of Eckhart Tolle. I didn’t want to be in the Now or focus on accepting where I was. I was tired, the cause easily blamed on the...
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