They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~ Confucius
The universe has a canny knack of nudging us with synchronicity, of healing us by reuniting us with our deepest desires to create and share something with love, whether it’s a meal or a beautifully decorated table, a painting, a patch of garden or a piece of poetry or music.
From the category archives:
Writing
Sorry I haven’t been writing or visiting blogs for a while. The volcano in Iceland turned a spur of the moment week away into an expensive and traumatic travel saga! I’ll be writing about my holiday when I’ve rested and caught up a bit, but in the meantime, for those of you who are enjoying my blog-birthday wanderings through the archives, here’s another post from my first month of blogging in April last year. It’s the best advice to bloggers I’ve ever written.
In this post, from April 5th 2009, I explore what editing – and editors – mean to me, as a wife, columnist and life coach. I also offer some tips on writing – and editing – with authenticity.I offer some tips on editing blog posts, and I explore what editing – and editors – mean to me, as a wife, columnist and life coach.
Striving to write haiku, within the traditional guidelines, has given me a great deal of pleasure and repays the effort, even though most of my poems rarely make it into the realms of ‘proper’ haiku. I’d like you to discover that joy, too, if you haven’t already. So this post adds a few How to guidelines to the Why’s and What’s of my previous haiku posts.
Quote-Hunting: How to Improve your Writing and your Life
Big claim. How on earth can capturing quotes in a notebook improve our lives? I’m guessing you’re a book lover as well as a wordsmith. Or an avid reader of other people’s blogs? If we use our skills as quote-hunters with integrity, we can sharpen our writing and invite presence, openness, connection, focus and inspiration into everything we do.
Haiku, real haiku, help us see into the life of things, to become more spiritual, compassionate and aware. Traditionally, haiku are direct, sensuous and real, and they centre us in the eternal NOW.
…In writing haiku, we learn to love the details of our lives and treasure our own experiences as life-filled beings in the grand scheme of things.
Are you tired? Do you regularly find yourself wondering where you’re going to find the inspiration for your posts? Maybe you don’t realise that your comments on other blogs – and the replies you write in your own comments boxes – contain gems, the seeds of whole posts. They’re your spontaneous writing, your honest, authentic, initial responses to the writing prompts that are other people’s ideas and feelings.
We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes – unique, born for a specific reason and purpose.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides. ~ Artur Schnabel
It’s snowing here in Scotland today – again – but the glow of gratitude I got from last week’s glimpse of spring and from welcoming friendly faces back to my blog [...]
