The garden calls me to come and weed regularly these days. In case I failed to mention it lately, I live in the southern part of the United States. It is hot here already – like 85 degrees hot – hitting 90 over the weekend. I have been getting up early to work in the garden in the cool morning hours. My normal routine is out of sorts. This makes me out of sorts.
“When I don’t write enough…I become lonely for my soul.” writes Julia.
She quotes a friend named Joseph,”Without writing, my life rushes by unexamined and I feel a disturbing sense of disconnect.”
In the third chapter for this week she states, “It doesn’t matter how you do it, what matter is that you do it.”
Journal pages sit empty. I feel a little empty even though life these days is very full of doing. There is not a lot of writing. Lonely and disconnected truly describes it feels. Now just to take Julia’s advice and “do it.”
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I have started my morning pages. It really is just a fancy way to describe journaling, isn't it? I have journaled off and on all my life. I am discovering that I have missed it. I like what Julia Cameron says about being a witness to our lives. Seems like, in the grown-up world, there aren't those opportunities to talk about the deep water issues.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about out of sorts. I've been spending a lot of time in my flowers (it's a jungle out there!) lately too. It takes so much time. Life takes time :) But you live it well, friend.
wow, you all have summer already.
ReplyDeleteschool ends mid june for us.
that schedule change is a bit of a shock at first.
even tho, a break from the schedule gives us a new perspective.
Life has a tendency to pull me away from my center and away from living deliberately. Journaling and walking bring me back home.
ReplyDeleteBut it's hard to make room for these things all the time. I don't always do it like I should. But when I've lost my way, I know to pull out the old maps and follow the trail of pages back to where I begin.
I can identify with your post.
Schedules are all out of sorts here too, with school out and all three guys at home now, but this time with me working from home. I'm trying to sort how to enjoy their free time and still keep myself on track. Could be interesting... That's when I go looking for that Iron Door... Remind me to keep it open, eh?
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