BE

[Linda]

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi

My friend Jeanne, who is a Sufi, reminded me today that when negative thoughts emanate from either side of my head, I am 'out of alignment' with my divinity.

This struck me powerfully - an anxious ennui has possessed me these past months, propelled no doubt by the 72,000 thoughts constant in my brain waging war rather than merely occupying synaptic space. Of course, with a mind so ill-occupied, writing has felt like racing a horse through quicksand.

I've fallen out of my practice of mindfulness, of expelling negativity and replacing it with positivity. This laziness is a natural consequence of the creative, competitive nature of my day and night jobs, both requiring original thought and reactive criticism. But it's my inner critic who mires me, who fills me with doubt and self-loathing and, well, negativity.

Thank you, friend, for reminding me life is a work of art, always changing, always processing. Thank you for reminding me to breathe out the ill winds, inhale the healing air, and take time to - Be.

THE WRITING... Quicksand - remember? Rewriting parts of PURE in third. Scratching out morning words, drabbles, lines of poems. BRIGHTER THAN BRIGHT off to my dear beta readers this week. These are the days when I write to write, to get through the words, to keep the practice.


Peace, Linda

[Linda]

I write all this stuff because making it public forces me to refocus, to be, so thank you. writing is like meditation, I guess; sometimes the practice is just that, you never catch that elusive 'it'.

Chris, that little face... want to pinch cheeks.

AK, thank you for the Rumi back at me, a wonderful conundrum. I hope the writing rises, hope the words merely make it to the page. Shalom, salaam, namaste, peace...

[Chris Campbell]

Lovely reminder.

[Tess Dickenson]

"... when I write to write, to get through the words..." Love that. Thank you for the gentle reminder to refocus.