colector: Re: [JournalWriting] Re:Wednesday's Mid Week Reflection, 2/20/2008, 12:00 am

Your haiku is especially beautiful. I love the expression you have used here in your entry "my heart feels open and pinging". It really struck a chord with me.
Betsy

Julie Jordan Scott <juliejordanscott@passionactivator.com> wrote:

It has been an incredibly full week this week.

Wow.

I journaled away from the keyboard. Here is what I wrote:

"What did I do this week? I worked on my lines, a lot.

I made masks - shaping plaster on women's faces.

I reflected. I built a fire in my fireplace this morning.

"I have felt so busy yet I built in a couple very cool

moments into my week. The time by the river

area at San Miguel Commemorative Grove. Its

amazing how much simple pleasure I get there.

"My heart feels open and pinging. I am working

on my lines again today. A lot.

"I paused for a bit to watch the fire dance. I bring

the river inside my home through building fires with

wood the river trees offer me. Their smell is somehow

different, it seems.

"They offer themselves up to me, graciously.

"Last night I comforted Alex. My heart goes out to her.

Sometimes it feels as if Divinity puts me in

the exact right places, as if I am entering into

a prayer not of my own making, but of someone

else's request. I somehow, without knowing, step into

the answer. Like last night, hugging Alex and

just letting her cry.

"I don't always realize it, but... it is especially

wonder-filled when I do.

"and then I wrote some haiku...

"River branches burn

Surrender themselves for me

Amber tongue licks their skin"

and

"Breathing just like this

Doors creak, reflections open

My soul fills my skin."

And then, the list:

What I did, outwardly:

VDay rehearsal, many times with many women

(and I loved my woman self in the interim)

Maskmaking

Elleemosynary, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Many hours studying lines

Pipes - pipes - new plumbing

Writing

Photo taking

A little bit of Rilke today

Time at the River

Went to a New Therapist....

An incredible massage....

So, there you have it.... my week.

:-)

Thank you for the exercise....

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