Gratitude

I lost a friend yesterday. A good friend. Cancer found her and I lost her. She was good and loving and kind and honest. My heart breaks for everyone who love her, and there are many. I am far away from them right now and so have to share my tears only with my cats. Bless the cats. The grief inside me at this time is deep and painful to the point that I could not make myself move this morning, until the work started whispering. "Words", it said. "Use your words". So, here I am using my words to share my sorrowful ache with you. I have deep gratitude for having had Diane in my life. I am a better person for having known her, I'm sure of it. We all die. It is the one thing we all share. Some go too soon. My beautiful friend went too soon. She left her stories in the world. Gratitued. I love you sweetie...

#gratitude #grief #Writing

Gone Fishing

Who is always telling you "Just do the work"? Yeah, that would be me. Who has not been doing the work? Yeah, that would be me. Sometimes life circumstances get us sidetracked. Mostly it has to do with other people's needs, not our own. Generally this is because we are good, kind, loving, human beings and we help when we are needed. And this is good. But, we only get one life each, so at some point we just have to say "Gone Fishing" and attend to our own needs, which means, doing the work. Okay writers, let's do it. Focus, for crying out loud! NaNoWriMo is approaching, for all you prose writers. Poets - well, come on, let's get weird.

#Writing #Motivation #Kindness #LabourofLove

Public Service Announcement

Back up your work! You worked really hard putting all those words in that computer. Avoid disaster and a lot of crying and swearing. Just copy it onto a flash drive, or whatever other means that works for you. Consider yourself reminded. I will try to remind you from time to time. Quit reading this and do it now!