Yet another friend has returned to the great eternity. Just over a year ago I dealt with the passing of five people who were close to me, some more than others. Four of them died within a seven-week span, and the fifth, my dear church sister Susan, just two months after that. At the time I remember feeling a sense of dis-ease, and although I have many spiritual tools and good friends to help me deal with this kind of thing, I was aware of “descending into greyness” and came to the conclusion that I was in a mild depression, . . . → Read More: Musings: Our Mortality
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 Leave a comment  All Posts, Musings  acceptance, aneurism, appreciation, artist, church, communication, Creator, death, DeBary, depression, eternity, Facebook, family, fear, Florida, friends, funeral, Gaeta, gift, God, grateful, gratitude, grief, heart, Italy, La Maddalena, lesson, Life, Mass, mentors, message, mortality, Muse, Musings, Naples, opportunity, Orlando, Puerto Rico, Santiago, Sardinia, soul, spiritual, thanksgiving, USS Belknap, writer I have been silent for a long time. Several months at least, and it has been hard. Hard to not write; hard to attempt to write. It’s hard not to write because the words are still in there, in my heart, my mind, and my soul and it’s like they are being stifled, suffocated. But at the same time, when I’m going through this non-writing phase, it’s also very difficult for me to try and “force” the writing. I also get very lethargic and don’t feel the energy moving in me to actually sit down and allow the creative juices . . . → Read More: Reconnecting: Awakening the Muse It seems as though there is an endless supply of words in this world, and so many people can use them creatively. They capture my attention and my heart. Sometimes I feel a little envious when I experience the way some writers put their words together. At times they seem to roll around in my mouth, at others they slip or trip off the tongue. Sometimes they are clear and sharp, and at other times they are sweet and soft. And then there are times when they seem to bounce off the page, dance in front of my eyes, shout . . . → Read More: Shared Wisdom: And The Words Keep Coming Leave a comment All Posts, Shared Wisdom art, Billy Graham, Caitlin Matthews, candlelight, chapel, Corrie ten Boom, creative, Dorothy Maclean, drum, faith, Francois Fenelon, Gabrielle Roth, God, goddess, heart, hope, Jesus, John Newton, Krishnamurti, language, learning, Life, love, Mother Teresa, Nick Black Elk, oracle, patient, prayer, Ray Bradbury, rhythm, sacred, silence, society, soul, St. Augustine, Universal, wisdom, words, writer |
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