Walking the Passage: What's Around the Bend

Monday, August 31, 2009

What's Around the Bend

When my brother visited William and Mary as a potential college (ended up going to Syracuse U.) I ventured into the book store. Where upon I found a book that filled me with great inspiration. I don't know what class it was specifically for but within its pages there were pictures and words and questions..... All meant to jog ones mind into a writing a creative piece.

I don't know about you but I sit down and begin to write, I can close my eyes and the computer keyboard becomes my "piano" of sorts. I feel the keys under my fingers and I get lost in the words that are coming forth...... My spirit soars as the creative part of my comes to life.... I love words...

I have word magnets on my fridge. So that every day I am around words.....

Words... dream, imagine, fanciful, dance, twirl, linger, captivate...........

I allow my mind to go and I get lost in all the possibilities that the words hold within... that they would release their full potential into us all is my deepest desire..................

So take a moment..... seriously take a moment... pick a word... write it down... and dream ...... allow yourself to be unencumbered by rules of grammar, by anything.... close your eyes and feel the keys under your fingers (don't worry about spelling.. never worry about spelling... we live in the day of auto correct) and write... and feel yourself come alive to all the possibilies....

or cut out photos from a magazine and clue them into a journal... and make up the story behind the photo.... Here are two recent photos I took..... "what is beyond the bend," or " what is it that beckons you " (for me its the light)!!!

Enjoy the journey and laugh... laugh... giggle (one of my new favorite words) giggle lots

1 comment:

inhim said...: What a flowing and creative release
of the inner spirit child...; September 1, 2009 at 4:08 PM

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.