"Who am I?" Diana Prichard of
Righteous Bacon is asking me as her Day 10 Writerly Reverb prompt.
If I were to slap boxifying (ok ok clarifying, at times) labels on myself I might proclaim I am a mother, a writer, a speaker, an artist, an explorer, and adventurer, a lover of literary history, a feminist, a life couch, a “Professional Expert”, a freelancer, a lover, a soul opener, Julie Jordan Scott, a freelancer or perhaps just another journeyer, like you are.
With this past year behind me – and it has been another one filled with Lifetime Movie candidates – I am ready to take on 2013 with a light unlike any I or you have known in the past or perhaps will meet again.
This question has
actually been above my desk for a few days now. It is on a dyed thesaurus page I used in a writing workshop
for prompts and one word I circled was “prig” which includes the synonym “Mrs.
Grundy.” I thought that was unique, not knowing the term, so I wrote this
question on the page, “Mrs. Grundy, what is synonymous with JJS?” Have I
mentioned JJS is one of my nicknames?
The question asks, “Who am I?”
I am evolving, growing, learning, deciphering, discovering. But I think I need to hang around with Mrs. Grundy a while longer to get the complete JJS Story.
In the meantime, here are some of my superpowers – and if you don’t make it to the end of the list I am going to tell Diana I adore this prompt and am so glad I found you again for this year’s reverbing. I love the business/personal/writerly focus of your prompts. I’ll be back.
- I am really good at bossing people around when they seem lost or perplexed. I normally think of myself as easy going, but when I am intensely focused, I am all about business and no bars are held. I need to allow myself to use this Super Power more often… the No Bars Held part.
- I am really good at extemporaneous speaking, especially on subjects I am passionate about and need to advocate for someone or something.
- I am really good at picking up hints that “something is amiss” when no one else can see it.
- I am really good at writing poetry off the top of my head and not worrying if it ever gets written on paper or remembered past the moment I riff it.
- I am really good at sticking up for others and am getting better at sticking up for myself.
- I have a ridiculous good memory for stuff that happened when I was younger. I still manage to remember nitty gritty details pretty well, but stuff from my childhood is downright ridiculous. Why do I still know Bernadette’s number in Glen Ridge by heart? Crazy the stuff my brain holds.
- I am exceptional at writing my emotions on paper and helping to express it by following with humor. I got this compliment just this weekend and naturally I wrapped it up in a long ago therapist saying, “You seem to cover up a lot of deep stuff in humor. What makes you do that?” Hmmm. Other are usually more comfortable with humor rather than pathos. (Getting better at not caring what other people think.)
- When I am not completely vulnerable, I am good at letting things roll off me. This morning my daughter actually said, “I don’t care about you…..” but I don’t think she knew it. If she had said this yesterday, when I felt extremely vulnerable, I probably would have cried in buckets. I think it is a superpower to let oneself cry in buckets when vulnerable, too, but detachment is also a superpower to be brought in when the time calls for it.
- I am really good at making people feel comfortable, welcome and not leaving anyone out.
10. I am passionate. I am passionate. I am passionate. SUPERPOWER #1. It fuels everything.
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So there are my writerly word loverly superpowers. What are yours?
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield.
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