This week was monumental for me and for my writing adventures. My personal journal writing has been reduced to bullet points, mostly of reference to where things are and what I did with what. It has been one of the most productive and rewarding times of my journal writing focus that began from such humble, small beginnings. You may notice subtle changes in appearance of my website, blog and email newsletter. Sign up here and on the Home page if you want to get started on a writing escapade of your own. Start small. Begin to capture memories and create ideas that become significant change agents. It is that time of year when change is in the air and combining energies engages your super powers. It all starts with the beginnings of where you want to start. You just have to begin.
I saw a post on facebook this morning about a movie I hadn't seen since childhood. Just the mention of the film made me smile. It was a physical reaction to words that someone wrote. This may not have been the same reaction that would have happened before I began to take journal writing to heart. I experience written (my own and other's) words. Yes. Experience. I have a physical reaction to them. When was the last time you got goose bumps about something you read? Now that I have planted that seed in your mind, it is my hope that the experience can be yours also. These experiences start out small, almost unrecognized in the beginning. We often rush past things we are meant to linger with. "Why," you ask, "would anyone care about the physical reaction one has to words?" I believe we are meant to experience so much more that we are experiencing. One day soon I am going to share the physical reaction I had to an invitation to play the 'candy' saga-thingy. It was only my reaction, but it turned the page on my journal writing and journal coaching practice. The next chapter was titled and the words began to hit the page like a flood. And not only one chapter or even one book. The creative force that was unleashed via that reaction would have likely passed me by and not gone on to help others who are finding a similar awakening by noticing the small details that abound. Things that begin to matter. The small things. The small beginnings.
I saw a post on facebook this morning about a movie I hadn't seen since childhood. Just the mention of the film made me smile. It was a physical reaction to words that someone wrote. This may not have been the same reaction that would have happened before I began to take journal writing to heart. I experience written (my own and other's) words. Yes. Experience. I have a physical reaction to them. When was the last time you got goose bumps about something you read? Now that I have planted that seed in your mind, it is my hope that the experience can be yours also. These experiences start out small, almost unrecognized in the beginning. We often rush past things we are meant to linger with. "Why," you ask, "would anyone care about the physical reaction one has to words?" I believe we are meant to experience so much more that we are experiencing. One day soon I am going to share the physical reaction I had to an invitation to play the 'candy' saga-thingy. It was only my reaction, but it turned the page on my journal writing and journal coaching practice. The next chapter was titled and the words began to hit the page like a flood. And not only one chapter or even one book. The creative force that was unleashed via that reaction would have likely passed me by and not gone on to help others who are finding a similar awakening by noticing the small details that abound. Things that begin to matter. The small things. The small beginnings.
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