The Intrigue of Life Story

With autobiographies, which stories intrigue the most? The Hero who solves it all? Probably not. 

Notice the individual who combines heroic facets with loser traits. Or, applaud for the loser who finds winning qualities? The texture of fragility and results intrigues.

When you write aspects of your life story, consider details and ways to mold the great and the gooney. Add habits you'd like to alter as well as your strengths. Show the failures and their potential for choices.

Avoid sharing a one-dimensional approach. Choose to describe your tragic nature, a sensitivity, your passivity, your loyalty, and duplicitous nature. Write about the poor choices and lack of communication skills. Add the anger and frustration you feel to show how struggles evolve.

Reveal your life by showing events and behavior rather than telling the reader what to expect. Encourage your writing to unfold like a camera's view.

Ask someone to make realistic comments about your personality. Embroider them into your presentation.

Add mentors and individuals who challenge your process.

Explain how you master your life through its negativity and opportunity.  

Let the lowlights shine through to accent the positive.

Develop the intrigue of your life story.

Move With Inspiration

 

It is what I was born for -

to look, to listen,

to lose myself

inside this soft world -

to instruct myself

over and over . . .    

                       - Mary Oliver

The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen. - Rumi

Nature's scents, sights and colors provide an interlude and exhilaration away from the rush of life's activities.

Entering this world releases us into a slower and tranquil way of living.

We can instruct ourselves, as Mary Oliver says, by observing the patience of a black phoebe or a blue jay's hunt for lunch.

Humor arrives as an osprey entertains.

Joys abound when we lose ourselves while learning nature's life skills.




Keeping the ears open and the smile widened makes the day.

Move with inspiration.

Explore Miracles

 

"There's nothing surprising about a miracle. Why, it's a miracle every morning 

that I don't melt in my bath." - Pablo Picasso

A non-religious definition of miracle indicates a highly improbably or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings welcome consequences.

"Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them," writes author Mark Helprin. "They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

"Risk defeat and be willing to exhaust yourself in the struggle to accomplish the impossible. Do so in a spirit of exuberance motivated by the urge to play," says Bob Brezsny

Consider your life's timeline. Define it by daily miracles. 

Include welcome events, friendships, family 
situations, and happenings-by-chance.

What do you take for granted, like Picasso's bath statement?

If you feel a religious pull, define miracles that support your beliefs.

Explore the magic and mystery of miracles in your life experiences.