colector: Re: [JournalWriting] Re:Daily Prompt, 3/6/2008, 12:00 am

This is beautiful and inspiring, Julie. I have felt some rough spots in the last year - I'm sure many of us have and many have writing as a dear friend but there are other things, too, that we can sit down and innumerate and express our appreciation. Sometimes we don't realize how many blessing we have until we sit down and put the pen to paper. Jane

----- Original Message -----

From: Julie Jordan Scott

To: JournalWriting@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:12 PM

Subject: [JournalWriting] Re:Daily Prompt, 3/6/2008, 12:00 am

What has sustained me during the hard times?

Wow. 2007 was one long hard time.

And now, now that we are three months into

2008, I can feel that I have risen to a higher level

than I knew was possible, ever.

There are several things that sustained me

during this time:

Writing. I wrote continually if not in all my

usual forms. I noticed poetry dropped away

and my free-flow writing practice was less

as well, but I kept publishing my ezine, I

kept blogging - I continued to show up.

I never went away as I have a tendency

to do when things are tough.

Theatre. It is my therapy, much of the

time. At the same time, in retrospect how

the hell did I do it? How the hell did I do

it well enough to get nominated for a

best supporting actress award? Yowza.

The connection with the other actors,

the speaking of beautiful words, the

requirement to stay present... all of

this really helped me, enormously.

Going on walks, alone and with others.

I love my secret and not-so-secret

escapes. They help me in both

my soul practices and my creative

practices, which I see are really one

and the same.

Taking photos, just life photos. I don't

go on many "shoots" I simply shoot-what-is.

I love getting flickr comments, I love

having people use the photos I take as

their myspace photos..... I love seeing

my flickr sidebar on 43things. I resisted

getting a digital camera for so long and

now I am already yearning to upgrade! LOL.

2007 was the perfect time for me

to start taking photos daily.

Hanging out with friends. Over coffee,

over sunsets, wherever, whenever.

Just being together. Love it.

Perhaps my "come back" after being

pretty much in a hermit space for

November, December and January is

in big part due to all of these things

I regularly do to take care of myself.

In spite of all that happened last year,

I am better than ever.

Pretty good stuff, eh?

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