Step up on that rock, and feel the connection
To nature, the Earth, Divinity..
This oasis I found in Los Angeles -
this Sacred Haven.... this is important
to our showing up on the page,
as writers.
Let's step into the moment - and consider metaphors as
I walk around this space and witness the moment I am
in... listen and breathe and open up to metaphors or
examples in your life for this same thing we are experiencing
separately and together.
Consider this to be an invitation to you to be exactly
where you are in this moment - where you are and here.
The soft ground beneath my feat
in a pine needle cradles
flies, soft soil and I see
flies, like a school of fish in mid-air
Feet cradled by the soil
Newborn green branch
I stroke the needles on this branch
I feel a connection to the soil
To the Universe to all the people
in Los Angeles to the gardener
who perhaps is wondering what
this woman is doing, on the
phone in this grove of urban
pine trees or perhaps not noticing
her at all....
I feel connected to the people on
the large Metro, Rapid bus -
Such a big bus, it has an accordion
in the middle
During my years away from Los Angeles,
people have learned it is ok to ride
public transportation all across the city
I feel connected
I pull away and my hand is covered with sap
The smell is the same smell I experience
in Sequoia or Yosemite or the places I went
camping as a child or Calvin Crest -
The stories live in items left behind
Reminds me of the stories left in the items
we have left behind
As a writer and liver of life
When I show up exactly where I am
exactly as I am, words and creativity
will flow. I don't have to concern
myself with where the words will take
me because I know they will take me
to places like this - a grove of
pine trees in the most surprising
places - and stumble upon blooming
jacarandas - and I will smell seeds
of writing in that jacaranda and in
that pine tree, in my dirty, sap covered
hands.
In these moments, exactly as they are -
are significant.
Thank you, thank you for showing up.
For listening.
Perhaps you have been jotting metaphors
as I have settled into my moment here.
I know, from this moment in time -
my life will never be the same because
will say on June 2, 2009 I sat amongst
a grove of pine trees on Wilshire Blvd
and I spoke what I saw onto a recording
device for you to scoop up and write from
as I leave you with a prompt:
Today, I scoop from my life.....
Scoop up the moment, the metaphors, scoop
up your exact moment, a half hour ago,
before you listened - what were you
seeing and feeling and tasting and smelling
what will you scoop up that will change your
life and the world, forever?
A blessing, a moment, a present - THIS
present YOUR present....
Get close to your writing, get close to
your pulse, put your pencil to your paper
and scoop up your life...
Today, I scoop from my life.....
Today, I scoop from my life.....
Scoop up the moment and write it...
Thank you.
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