Writing Yesterdays

All your yesterdays are buried deep. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud formidable from a distance.  The cloud clears as you enter smooth as silence; rough as glass.
                                 - from West with the Night by Beryl Markam.

Life involves a push and pull of forces. It becomes a strain for something; often against a resistance.  We grow to appreciate the little things. When life wears us down, we learn problem solving, creative choices and acceptance. Writing about the stresses and strains clears our vision.  It permits possibities to appear.

Creative action:

Create two columns where you list five favorite and five disappointing yesterdays.

Include those that have become "buried deep." Add achievements,  celebrations, and friendships on one side.  On the other side post fragile times of loss, failure and frustration.

Pair one from each column and write to the pair for fifteen minutes.

Consider what the joys, stresses and strains create when interwoven.  To distance yourself, write in third person.  Notice where the writing leads.

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