This blog name just isn’t working for me so I’m going to change it; I’m
now thinking “A little bit of me”. After all its little bits of my thoughts or
my life, excerpts from where I am at in any given moment.
Granted when I started it I figured I would be successfully writing a
tell all about my journey with weight loss, my struggles but how I bravely
overcame them with the resulting loss of kilos from all over my body. Well, it
hasn’t turned out quite like that, not even remotely although I have lost 5.5kg’s
and while that counts as achievement it’s very flexible with more gains than
losses. Bloody menopausal body [okay that and my penchant for chocolate].
I’m writing today’s post because it’s part of my ‘homework’ from week one of The Artists Way by Julia Cameron –
a course in discovering and recovering your creative self. I’ve never really
believed in myself as a creative being but according to Julia my little artist
is there inside me so I’m committing to putting in the work to locate her.
Task 8 was if you had 5 other lives to lead what would you do in each
of them? This is one of the easier tasks options to choose from, some of them
are somewhat confronting requiring a trip back down memory lane looking at past
experiences I think best left in the dark but which Julia believes influenced
the building blocks of my core negative beliefs and thus need airing out and
dealing with. Anyway, my list of 5 are; a writer – as in a published author, a
singer song writer, a nurse in stressful situations [kind of like Margaret Hullahan
in Mash but without the added stress of Frank], a yoga instructor [how cool
would that be] and a famous actress.
Then we had to review our list and choose one from it and do it! Hence
this blog post, honouring my other life as a writer.
Perhaps by the completion of this course Julia will have unlocked my
hidden writer artist.
The truth of the matter is I really like to write but find I write
really well in my head but getting it out and onto paper [real or virtual] is
often a difficult transition.
I try to meet some of need to write by having a blog – where I don’t
post often enough - , by journaling – again which can be sporadic, and by
writing letters. I’ve now got a few overseas pen friends and we converse via
snail mail which really is a lot of fun and it’s exciting to empty the mail box
of the junk mail and bills to find a handwritten letter addressed to you often
encased in a fun colourful envelope.
Letters meet my love of reading and my desire to write quite nicely.
So, homework done; post written and now needing to be actually posted
on to my page.
Next task, work out how to change my blog title....
Nameste
Breezi
