Week One, Day One

I did it. Yesterday I promised myself I’d start morning pages again. And I did it. I DID IT! I really, really did it. Morning pages are a lifeline for me. I feel so much like myself today grounded in my sacred creative practice. My spiritual practice. Writing in the morning points my whole day in the right direction. Whatever right is, that’s where it goes. Right and true. I feel so myself today. I won’t share my actual morning pages. Those are not meant to be shared. I will share the two poems that wrote themselves in my heart AFTER my morning pages. I’ll share them tomorrow and the next day. (I may share pieces of them much later. Right now they are too raw and tender and they are meant to just be. So be they will be.)

There’s an internet meme going around that says something like “Day one OR One day. Your choice.” Well, I chose Day One. On May 3 I chose Day one of my blog. And today, on June 3, 2021, I committed to Day one of morning pages. I am following the spirit of the Artist’s Way that has been such a crucial part of my path. Specifically I am following Julia Cameron’s latest book, “The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention.” So far I’m just in the introduction but I’ll finish Chapter 1 in the next few days and let it guide me through week one of this 6 week process (and beyond!)

I was so excited at dinner that I announced to my husband, 8.5 year old and 4.5 with a seated happy dance in between bites of our every Thursday dinner rice and beans. “Do I seem extra peaceful today?! More like Me? It’s because I wrote in my journal this morning! I love writing in my journal. It makes me feel soooo good!” Aaaah. I’m back. I’m BACK! Get ready to watch this blog get extra juicy. Because when I go in and have so much to share out.

Good things, darling.

Melissa