Natalie Goldberg - Quotes Julia Cameron uses so many quotes from others in her book that I am not willing to verify what random folks have posted under her name. An uplifting read and good practices. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron And then, quotes from Wild Mind and Writing Down the Bones … https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/25189.Natalie_Goldberg … Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones & Wild Mind “This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories - of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them. Writing is still the wildest thing I know.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.” =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Thanks for being here. Blessings, David Thank you for visiting. Take some time for your self.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Mind and Bones
Friday, May 2, 2025
SRG May 2, 2025
Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. This will miraculously transform your whole life." … "The healthier your body is, the easier it is for you to manifest what you want in this reality. Take care of yourself" … "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius … Your physical body IS your spirit in physical terms. It's the same kind of idea, if you wish a crude analogy, of saying ice is still water, it's just frozen, but it's the same thing. It's the same substance, essentially, and so is steam. ~ Bashar … Yes, you will rise from the ashesbut, the burning comes first.For this part, darling, you must be brave.-Kalen Dion … "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." ~ Frida Kahlo … What if I told you that waiting on Jesus to return is a deception to distract you from discovering Christ within you? What if I told you that who you are waiting on, is waiting for you? … The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of small humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound." ~ Carl Gustav Jung … "You have to be the first, foremost, living example of the behaviors that belong in the realities you prefer." Thank you for visiting. Take some time for your self.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Junk Drawer Coffin
Titles:
A Bright Spot Everything’s going to be alright. Blubber The Naming Gate Pronounceable Ingredients I have sometimes wondered Keyword: Poem Junk Drawer Coffin Listening It might have been an hour Deep in the breeze, or Scarecrow … perhaps We, as in we, are As so often the case … ShushMouth Finally Speaks Watering the Roots Approximately Intersections Just because ALT Suicide Hotline Naked Curiosity =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= A Bright Spot Because I said so. Heard it. Said it. Spin this bumper sticker on an emotional color wheel until you find a bright spot. Now say it again. Because I said so. A bright spot. … David White April 3, 2025 Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Everything’s Going to Be Alright Well, except … the Sumatran Pygmy Rhino will, most likely, still be extinct. “Oh! Not yet?” Well, how about that? See, hope springs eternal. … © David L White April 4th, 2025 Poem 12:34 PM =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Blubber It’s a bit dark in here to read the fine print You slice open a whale and squeeze out a little oil for your lamp only to find that opening your whale voids the warranty … Poem April 5 2025 © David L White =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= The Naming Gate The entire world passes Back and forth Forever … © David L White April 4 2025 Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Pronounceable Ingredients Similar to the answer being contained in the question, your prescription is a placebo, in your bowl of alphabet soup. Stirring your letters will be helpful. Good food. Eat. … © David L White April 8 2025 Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= I have sometimes wondered if some poems, simply by proposing thoughts in shorter lines, so that the reader has to slow down, and take a breather Share their value by providing the opportunity to reflect. No one’s looking. Go ahead! … © David L White April 8, 2025 Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Keyword: Poem That’s about the extent of the organization: a text search keyword poem … © David L White April 8, 2025 poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Junk Drawer Coffin Fill a pine box with some of the stuff they said I couldn’t take with me. I’ll write a list in my will. Add a dash of my cremains. Seal the deal. Amen. I do like the idea of a little slab of granite. I also adore the idea of not lying in the cold below. But by God, it’s America and “”” why, oh why, “”” can’t we have it all? Let’s laser a piece of my own art with my name and dates, and a QR code to a cloud farm. There may be things you haven’t heard me share. … © David L White April 9, 2025 4:45 am Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Listening Brag if you must, but I’d rather hear the plain truth, possibly spiced up with a little juice in your voice. Tell me what you know and love. And I want to give you as much time as it takes to get to the place where you hear yourself say something brand new. The aha moment. … David L White, January 17, 2025 8:11 AM Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Sang some low and mourning river poem “Shenandoah, I love your daughter.“ And oh you damn and rolling river I’ll find who I thought you were where my heart was lost in skipping stones on the whisper song surrender, and on the wind that carried me to the shore where I was not. Surrender: The Hobo Day 2025 Memorial Poem Title © David L White ’74 - ’25 Poem - 1974 . River/Title - 2025 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= It might have been an hour … or ninety minutes max, and yet, for fifty years, I’ve called it a holiday, as if it was a day. A few, sparkling moments. I was dazed. To saunter in the breeze and see where it leads. Hobo, I said. Not tramp or bum, but exotic, in Spanish: vacilandero or vagabundo. A meander along a meander with a dilettante and sufficient means. That is the full intent. Nothing more is meant. Get out and play. Enjoy the day. … (c) David L White April 12, 2025 8:07 am Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Deep in the breeze, or Love at First Smite While the dogs ran the dunes, she and I sauntered, I recall. Loose ground. Measured walking. A breezy, easy, warm April day. The cottonwood trees approved; clapping their waxy leaves. Popup showers from flat Nebraska boiled over the Missouri River on the Dakota side with fat drops pelting the sand. Little rainbows, (with glitter according to the myth), she … smiled and introduced me to her Krishnamurti. … Hobo Daze Memorial Fifty Years Plus April 12, 2025 David L White 6:50 AM Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Scarecrow … perhaps were I ever to change my name from poet. It’s simpler. Stand in a field. Let the wind blow. Scare off the flockers. … Poem April 11, 2025 © David L White =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= We, as in we, are nearer than we have been in a long while, to the end of us and them. Begin to find this a little more often where you look. I believe you will see it. Then point. … Poem © David L White Sunday April 13, 2025 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= As so often the case … FAFO depends a lot on WTF. What if you really like it? Ever think of that? Did you? Huh? … Copyright David L White April 3, 2025 9:01 am Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ShushMouth Finally Speaks You focus on the core calling. Distractions disappear. The calling continues. Be quiet. Shush. … © David L White April 16, 2025 Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Watering the Roots We might be able to speak of the falsehoods at another time if we can wade through the half truths, I’ve been insisting upon. Misinformation and disinformation of my own creation is watering the roots. Seeping into the groundwater. I wondered why the fruit tastes a bit off. … © David L White April 17, 2025 10:01 AM Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Approximately One of the many, most amazing miracles of life itself, just invested thirty-seven* seconds into writing this poem. * approximately, I say. It went quick. The core was there IMMEDIATELY. Then the signature. Then the naming. Finally, I hope, this commentary. Maybe seven minutes, tops, including gazing out the window. … Copyright Poem David L White 4/19/25 11:30 am =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Intersections Here’s a point that might be the beginning of a straight line of thought. Follow it ………… /|\ all the way out until you need to turn around. On the way back, note the points of interest and the intersections You may need to Get back there someday … © David L White April 19, 2025 7:35 AM a poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Just because If you can name, and imagine, a constellation, I’d like you to levitate it in the palm of your hand, and make it spin. Just because wow! … © David L White April 28, 2025 12:06 PM Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ALT Suicide Hotline 1-888-Jum-pPal • JumpPal.domain GeoCache App. FindYourJumpPal Need $$ KickStarter … Opportunity Ground Floor Hit it Hard & Fast … © David L White April 26, 2025 6:55 AM Poem =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Naked Curiosity Some of these questions don’t need to lure you down a dark alley. They can strip you bare between the Walk and Don’t Walk lights. Red. Yellow. Green. … © David L White April 28, 2025 12:11 Poem Thank you for visiting. Take some time for your self.
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