Autumn's Awesome

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower - Albert Camus

Autumn has crept in for a week or two. September 22 marks its official opening day.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
                                          - Gerard de Nerval














Flowers are the music of the ground; from earth's lips speak without a sound.  - Edwin Curran

Find a current that takes its time.

Have some fun!

Notice how a hippopotamus gets down from a tree.

It sits on a leaf and waits for fall.

Take in the color, shapes, and scents.

Celebrate the day.

Word Friends

Staying balanced involves exploring the ups and downs, then leveling off from daily dips. Let your range of emotions twirl into words that motivate you into writing action.

Go for ten actions to stimulate creativity.

l.   Set a writing intention. Choose a subject and write regardless of a need for outcome. Surprise yourself.

2.  Exercise your body with a walk, run, weight training, or yoga. Get that motor running to power the endorphins. Imprint the energy.

3.  Choose your quality of the day: grace, courage, persistence, self-acceptance. Use it as a focus if you have a meditation practice. Or, write about it to begin the day.

4.  Feel gratitude for all your gifts. Give thanks for waking up with a healthy body and mind clear enough to do this exercise. Last thing at night: Review all the good things that happened during the day. Build your gratitude muscle and train your mind to focus on the good. (Are you alive? Do you have clean water? 

5.  Do you live in harmony with the land?) Avoid taking in negative news. Add nutritious brain food by choosing what works in life.

6.  Drink lots of water and fresh juices during the day.

7.  Listen to uplifting music, sing and dance. Open the heart. Alter your mood.

8.  Choose wisely what you read, listen to and the people with whom you associate. Avoid letting negative individuals populate your world. You cannot change them.  Move on.

9. Let humor in.

10.  Call a loved one or friend just to say hello or catch up.

Explore and win your day with words.

What Matters Most?

"Gaining access to that interior life is a kind of . . . archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork, you journey to a site to see what remains and what's left behind 

and you reconstruct the world." 

 - Toni Morrison

                                      

What matters the most in your life? 

Answers to that question change as you grow and mature with experience in thinking about choices. During a lifetime, we return to aspects of life that matter the most. Writing about and through these experiences provides insight for future choices.

Think of an incident that shaped the way you view your life?  Did a hidden gift exist there, or a lesson you've carried forward? 

Did you make a choice in the moment that benefitted your future?  Could you have gone a different direction and altered where you reside in life today?

Recall an incident where you felt a real or perceived disadvantage. In reflection, would you change the results? 

Remember a choice you did not make or one that was made for you because of procrastination or indecision. How would you rewrite it from a third person perspective?

Do you have unfinished business in an area of life?

What's your life's greatest decision?

Discover what writing uncovers in the archaeology of your interior life. 

Then, as Morrison suggests, "reconstruct the world."