Yes, I am making another attempt at reprising my poor neglected blog. I have exciting changes to make to it in the very near future, but until then …
I have a friend (I know, shocking, right?!) We’ll call her Bee. Bee has been hounding me to start blogging again. To get the words out there. To think creatively and to just plonk down my thoughts. I’ve been resisting … the last thing I want to do, I thought, after a day at work sitting at the computer writing stories to go on our mastheads’ websites, is to come home, sit down at the computer and do more writing to go online.
Last week I decided I might want to get back to it after doing my end-of-month goal check-in and reading something I wrote at the beginning of the year about creativity. I had that urge, again, to start reading the collection of ‘creativity’ books I have (mostly unread, the others partly read, none of them finished) and blog about working through them. I felt a frisson of excitement, thinking about doing it once again.
External discipline leads to internal freedom.
Yesterday I decided to do it NOW, after a day spent with Bee at a one day meditation retreat spent in noble silence and doing guerilla walking meditation at Black Head Beach (along with a lot of formal practice). During the day, our teacher, Sharn Rocco of Mindful Works, talked about The Artists Way, by Julia Cameron – an old classic that nearly everyone has picked up or heard of at some time. I’ve picked it up many times. And I’ve never finished it. She talked about incorporating artists dates and morning pages into mindfulness practice. What a brilliant idea, I thought.
So hence my thoughts coalescing into an actual action. I may or may not pick up and read and work through all of these creativity books I have. I do hope to, though. I will also share thoughts and experiences about meditation and mindfulness practice (or the battle to establish one, which has been taking many years). I’ll also talk about singing a lot, I’m predicting, as this year has unintentionally turned out to be ALL about that.
So … hello again, interwebs.
May all of my non-existent readers be happy.
Namaste.