Well, let's see...I now have a weekly goals whiteboard staring at me through the leaves of the African violet on my desk. It has my goals for exercise (gym/trainer/walks/yoga), writing (morning pages, project(s)), and events (Artist Dates, etc.) for the week.
I can tell you exercise is my dismal spot - 33% completion rate there - must do better! Writing and Events garnered 100% completion rate - yeay! Now to keep that up!
To date, I have done two weeks straight of the morning pages as recommended by Julia Cameron, and I find them to be helpful in centering me. I have rules for these pages - no personal angst (or not much anyway), to start with. Do them daily - even if I can't do them first thing in the morning. This gives commitment to my writing and, perhaps like exercise for other folks I've known in my life, I will get cranky and have to write the pages if I miss a day or so!
I believe I touched on attending a My Girlfriends Garden event in last week's post. I did attend the event, and it was great! I felt so at home with this group of gals. Just meeting them all and feeling accepted - wow! Robyn McCann, http://www.elephantsdance.org/, the speaker, was great! She shared how she was raised in a strict religious home yet always felt guided by animals in her life, even when she didn't realize that's what was happening. She opened herself to the experience and has led a wonderful life because of it. Another gal I met, Kari Hagensmith, has this really cool book - The Girlfriend Will. Her card says "I'm gone. You're here. Someone's got to clean up this mess." I know several women in my life that would get a kick out of this book! And I can't close this paragraph without telling you about Lisa Mann, owner of Fortezza Winery. She put up with my questions about her wine, and poured for all of us. She was just so nice and friendly - a definite keeper on the winery list (and good wines too!!)!
The other event I attended this weekend was a birdwalk at Heritage Oak Winery in Lodi, CA. David Yee, local bird enthusiast (among other things), leads monthly birdwalks on the property, which backs up to the Mokelumne River. We are so blessed that Tom Hoffman, the winery owner, allows us to use his property for these events. His family has maintained a balance between the vineyards and the riparian areas that yields magnificient habitat for many species of birds either stopping off for a rest and a bite to eat during migration or looking for a place to nest for the season.
All of the creative and accepting energy that I was blessed to be with this week led to me starting another writing project using the sentence for the current contest for the publication, The First Line. The sentence is: Sam was a loyal employee. How the story works out...well, if I manage to get it written/edited/submitted by 31 Jan 11 - I'll still have to wait until the periodical is published either way - that's the rules! I will tell you this though...it's another story set in the Character Realm!
Wow! That's a lot for a week's time...
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