"I'm glad that I am me, that's who I want to be;
though there are changes I must make,
I'm glad that I am me..." So goes verse one of a kindergarten social studies song, which goes on to say that acting like someone else is foolish.
Today's challenge, a greeting card verse by Lisa herself, is to "Enjoy your presence."
One of the prompts is to tell what I enjoy of my 'gifts.'
...
Still fussing over Lisa Sonora's 30-day journal exercise as being excessively self-serving, I remember that that was the point...getting at the root of what is freeing and creative; I suppose it makes sense that, if I am going to be rooted, the root needs to reside in and with me. I recall old Shakespeare's line, "To thine own self be true' Thence it follows, sure as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.* "Physician heal thyself." The airlines' admonition to secure your own oxygen mask before helping others with theirs. And the 'gifts' idea, of course, is very Biblical, so I am familiar with that.
OK, Lisa, I'm 'in.' Vis: Health limitations notwithstanding (and I work on renewing that, too) I am:
Music, singing, speaking, reading aloud, reading poetry aloud esp., cooking, washing dishes, laundry, listening to someone who needs/craves an ear, speaking a word of peace, driving for clarification of meaning, writing, reading to/talking with little children, teaching little children to read and /or write/journal..."These are a few of my favorite things." Oh, and did I say potatoes? I eschew the 'faves' question, but I really like spuds.
;-).
In terms of freeing the creative spirit, the intention of this month of journal challenges, I do deal with it from time to time, have done for years, sometimes for a dedicated time and space, solo or with others, most recently a study group of the book EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY, by Peter Scazzero. A tour de force of spiritual practices, good for anybody, but requiring truth and 'grit' to do that kind of work.
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*(LOL; to another man-term maxim I share with my seven year-old granddaughter today, she immediately responds, "But we're not men, we're girls." Gotta love it! How times have changed. I explain to her about the archaic usage, where 'men' is used to refer to all humans. She is nonplussed.)
though there are changes I must make,
I'm glad that I am me..." So goes verse one of a kindergarten social studies song, which goes on to say that acting like someone else is foolish.
Today's challenge, a greeting card verse by Lisa herself, is to "Enjoy your presence."
One of the prompts is to tell what I enjoy of my 'gifts.'
...
Still fussing over Lisa Sonora's 30-day journal exercise as being excessively self-serving, I remember that that was the point...getting at the root of what is freeing and creative; I suppose it makes sense that, if I am going to be rooted, the root needs to reside in and with me. I recall old Shakespeare's line, "To thine own self be true' Thence it follows, sure as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.
OK, Lisa, I'm 'in.' Vis: Health limitations notwithstanding (and I work on renewing that, too) I am:
Music, singing, speaking, reading aloud, reading poetry aloud esp., cooking, washing dishes, laundry, listening to someone who needs/craves an ear, speaking a word of peace, driving for clarification of meaning, writing, reading to/talking with little children, teaching little children to read and /or write/journal..."These are a few of my favorite things." Oh, and did I say potatoes? I eschew the 'faves' question, but I really like spuds.
;-).
In terms of freeing the creative spirit, the intention of this month of journal challenges, I do deal with it from time to time, have done for years, sometimes for a dedicated time and space, solo or with others, most recently a study group of the book EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY, by Peter Scazzero. A tour de force of spiritual practices, good for anybody, but requiring truth and 'grit' to do that kind of work.
______________
*(LOL; to another man-term maxim I share with my seven year-old granddaughter today, she immediately responds, "But we're not men, we're girls." Gotta love it! How times have changed. I explain to her about the archaic usage, where 'men' is used to refer to all humans. She is nonplussed.)
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