“The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.” ~ Norbet Platt
So… I got off track in my blogging last week.
All my energy was caught up in being Juliet, and then in our Groupon Deal… and I just didn’t seem to have ANY creative vibes left. There were several nights I came home, stared at the computer screen for half an hour, and then turned it off in favor of gaping at reruns of Criminal Minds or House and drooling like a semi-finalist at the inbreeding contest.
It wasn’t pretty.
But the funny thing is how much I missed this “coming to the page” time.
Writing these little snippets feels a lot like sending messages in bottles – I never really know if what I write sinks unread or if they land on distant shores to be taken up and perused to who-knows-what effect. I guess I just hope they end up where they are meant to be…
It really is a total surrender. I write what needs to be written that day, and let it go at that.
Which in and of itself is a huge non-control-freak think for me… and the fact that it’s so comfy to do so is an insight of its own.
But, as it turns out, there are other benefits I couldn’t have predicted to having committed to showing up here on a regular basis. I’m motivated to stay more present to the moment and to see things from a larger perspective. I have a reason to sift through the events of my day for the message, or the lesson, or the ah-ha moment that wants to be shared. I get to tell my truth about the work we do here in a way that is not simply business-like and clinical, but personal and experiential. I get to speak for the humanity in myself and that I see in other people.
And in doing so, I have created greater meaning for myself.
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.” ~Vita Sackville-West