Thoughts...Just Thoughts for a Monday

Today's began amazing!  The mist settled over the beaches and passed through the trees outside my balcony.  Tiny sparrows played hide-n-seek with a hummingbird just feet from where I sat with my feet wrapped in a blanket and book on my lap.  It was the perfect way to begin a new day.

Hours later, I still sat with a blanket wrapped around me even though the sun was out and the dog begged for another walk.  My joints ached and my head pounded.  Something was trying to invade every cell of my body and it was obvious I wasn't going anywhere except back to the soft chairs on the balcony with the blanket and book. 

I think it was meant to be though.....

Taking up my Nook, I decided to read Oprah's magazine and found three questions she had asked her staff that month.  The questions resonated with me.  I pondered them for quite a while.  These are amazing questions that breathe life into a typically mundane existence.  I am grateful that I was able to answer them and while I would be happy to do so (should anyone ask...), I would prefer to post them here for your benefit.  Take a minute and ponder these questions as they relate to your life, your week, your day.  Answer them and share, if that feels comfortable to do so on this blog.  I take joy in reading about others' accomplishments and triumphs, as do so many of you!

And so...the questions are this:

1. What is my greatest accomplishment?

     2.  The most risky thing I've ever done is...?

     3.   If I had no fear, I would......?


Namaste ~

The Necessity to Write

Only recently have I realized the correlation between the breath and my need to write.  Both are events which occur without much thought until the desperate moment when my soul become starved from lack of it.  Indeed, as the industrious Captain Phillips experienced when cast overboard, the survival instinct surfaces as oxygen is depleated.  Writing becomes oxygen and a fight-or-flight instinct to sit in silence and create is no less the survival process for an author.

Many have contacted me asking what to do when that urge to create bubbles.  Unaware of the "tools" needed to write, these talented authors struggle to "breathe" life into their story.  How to do it is the question..."how do I survive with this story screaming to surface?"

The thought crossed my mind that perhaps my brief experience as a published author, screenwriter and now producer might be of benefit to some.  The resulting shift in my intention for this blog site steers a different course for the words to be written on this site.  That intention will be to write for authors, historians, film creators and those who hunger for the means to release their story.  My hope is that I can offer something of substance to you.  This is done in humility and with the sincerest desire to share experience only, never assuming that you (my very learned collegues) are lacking.  In fact, the opposite is the case....I desire to learn from you as well and hope this blog will become a forum for authors, writers, visionaries, creators and imaginations everywhere.  Indeed, that is the title of the blog and the intent from the beginning.

Please return and partake of my experience, learn from my mistakes and successes and let's move forward as creators and imaginaries together.  Until the next post....

Namaste ~