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Physical, Mental, Spiritual – Words Connect Them All

carolyncordon

I am a writer, that is who and what I strongly feel I am. I write things, publish my writing in a variety of ways, and share my writing as well, to interested ‘audiences’. Those audiences may only be members of my writing group, most of the time, but sometimes it may be a larger audience than that.

I am currently having two new people, support workers, who visit me most weeks. One of them is involved with helping me to more safely get out and about in the community, working on my physical issues. The other helps me get out and about by actually taking me there, and having a fun time with me when we get there, wherever ‘there’ is.

Spiritual, ah, this is the one I do alone, at home. From my favourite sitting spot, and looking out of the window over to my left, I can see the trees, flowers, sky, and birds, all doing their things while I watch. Nature is the thing that speaks deeply to my ‘soul’ if that’s what it is, that warms my heart and soothes any troubled thoughts.

I’ve written about all of these things, but really, not enough about all that Nature means to me, I suspect. Nature is all of the good things that happen, and the reason I hold to, to move forward when the bad things happen. Nature builds up after it has destroyed, and it brings along new options, in the face of troubled times blocking the usual ways of doing …

Nature is my ‘god’, my big unknowable reason for everything. The dark sky at night, the seasons that come along, one after the other as they always have. Nature is … everything.

I can walk because Gravity holds me up, and I also crash to ground if I have a trip and fall. Nature has given me a chronic illness, that adds to these falls too, I suppose, but the many benefits I get from Nature makes it forgivable.

Thinking about these kinds of things helps me to organise my mind, and sort out what are the good things in life, mine and the loves of others. And further thought, especially looking into /stoic thought has enabled me to learn to let go of the things I can do nothing to change.

No point worrying if there’s nothing I can possibly do, I’m far better off delving more into the things I actually am able to do. So reading about such matters, when I find writers whose outlook on life meshes with mine makes for an effective way for words to help me become the best I can be, Physically, Mentally, Spiritually.

Thinking, writing, speaking, all need words, and being able to use those words is an awesome thing.

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It All Starts Tomorrow

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Today is the penultimate day of January, and I can almost say that tomorrow will be the first day of February, and that means it’s also the first day of February, and the first day of the month of creative writing prompts! I’ve been talking with members of my writing group about this, and the blog posts I’ve written about it, are on my Facebook page, and being read by some people.

I’ve put some links on my twitter accounts, and who knows how many people may have seen the information there. I’d like hundreds of people to be reading this blog post, obviously, but life isn’t like that – you have to work hard to get stuff like that happening in your life.

And my life is full of lots of different things, and I don’t have the time or the knowledge, understanding, or inclination to get all of those kinds of things done. In my ideal life, I’ll have a p/a, who will attend to the details, and I’ll be able to concentrate on the big picture stuff only. I’m not living that ideal life though.

Puss in Boots and I hape we all have a great creative month together, for February, with lots and lots of words written!

So I do what I can, what I want to do, what interests me the most, and what ‘floats my boat’. I get a huge kick out of inspiring other people to write, when they never realised creative writing was a skill they had. Giving feedback and encouragement taught me these things, and I’m grateful to the people who helled me in these ways. This February writing prompt idea is a way of giving to others.

Giving to others, helping them to write better, inspiring them to write, as a writer, of course I want others to write too, they’re my peers, and writers, are also readers, and of course writers and readers have a symbiotic relationship, giving to each other …

So the month of February will be a month of exploring ideas, writing on the new prompts I’ll be handing out, a new one every single day … And I’ve just today discovered that Writers’ Week starts in Adelaide, on the last day of this project, and that seems so appropriate to me, a month of new writing, ending with a great writing and listening and learning, as well as chat and schmoozing event, that brings together writers and readers from around the world, all getting together in the that little grassed space …

I’ll be there, for some of the event, not sure how many days, but at least two days, hopefully more. Writers Week always feels like I’m ‘one of the gang’ the gang of writers, sharing with others, and learning more and more about this writing world …

So this month of writing prompts starts tomorrow, the fun starts tomorrow (I hope!), and with luck, by the end of February, I may have enough poems for my next poetry collection! Or I may have a breakthrough and really truly get to work on my series of Cosy Murder Mysteries, or I may even turn the first draft of the novel I’ve written into the second draft, and have begun giving it to readers to make it into a publishable book, perhaps! You never know what might happen, when inspiration is in the room!

So I hope you’re feeling inspired for February to bring good writing, as I am, buckle in and be preapared to write and write and write!

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Searching for Your Soul

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Today, I’m a bit excited, because I’m giving a poetry workshop on the theme of searching for your soul. We will look at what the soul is, what it means to those present, and ways it fits or could fit into our lives.

Doing good for ourselves, in materialistic terms is ‘good’ to do, but the good in that is only temporary, and does not much at all for the soul, as far as I see things. It may seem different to others, and of course, we can all see things in different ways.

Living a safe life, with money matters all under control, so that you always have food and shelter, these are certainly important things in life. But that is what animals aim to do every day, we are humans, and surely we have a need to search for more than that?

That is where the search for the soul comes into things, as far as I see it. The soul, higher purpose, raison d’etre or however you refer to it, that takes you much higher than mere animal level of existence, into the more thinking levels of being, into ideas of more Spiritual leanings. These are the things I expect we will be talking and writing about today.

I have another workshop with the same community group next month, which if it goes as I plan, we will be looking at the words we write today, and turn them into absolutely perfect poetry, meaningful and magical!

Finding words, talking about things, writing things down, these are the first stages in the writing of meaningful poetry, and of course if your theme is ‘Searching for your soul’, you would expect much of meaning to be written about for the session.

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The process of editing words into something better, that is where mere words can become literature. Using poetic devices such as assonance, alliteration, rhyme, simile, metaphor and such things, this is what can turn initial words into fine poetry.

Helping other people to do this, that surely is a part of my own raison d’etre! Helping others to turn the everyday and ordinary into more meaningful and important things, finding the soul, examining ways to do the best possible thing in life, these are surely what every person should be working toward? I thing so, and I’d love to know how you feel about these things. Please leave a comment, we can discuss these higher matters here.