#31Days of Living a Passionate Life: Building Community

To Read this series from the start, please visit this #31 Days Link after you have read this essay.

 I used to lament there were no people like me to be found in Bakersfield.

Guess what happened once I started living with passion in the place I lived?

People appeared, like magic. My people. People who loved words and poetry. People who engaged in performance. Artists, funny people, quirky people, colorful people all became my beloveds.

Here in Bakersfield?

I oftentimes tell people, “If I live like this in Bakersfield, people can live like this anywhere.”

Once you start moving in the direction of what you are passionate about, people will begin to appear.

It is not entirely unlike Field of Dreams when we hear over and over again, “If you build it, he will come.”

If you live passionately, you naturally attract others who live passionately.

Please try this out: give yourself a week to live consistently fired up and asking the world to bring passion to you and you will seek passion in your actions, in your thoughts and in your creative explorations.

In a week, let me know what’s happened and who you have found.

Keep putting one foot in front of the other.

 Create your community now.

 Day 1/31 – Let’s Begin

Day 2/31 - A Passionate Attitude

Day 3/31 - Choice + Intentional Action

Day 4/31 - Passionate Detachment

Day 5/31 - Curiosity & Passion

Day 6 - Creating a Monthly Theme

 Day 7 - Gratitude

Day 8 - The Art of Receiving

Day 9: The Artful Skill of Making Requests

Day 10: One Big "D" - Devotion

Day 11: Community

                                                                                        Day 12 - Silence

Day 13 - Live and Love the Questions

This post was inspired by the #31Days challenge on TheNester.com

So far it has been a wonderful experience of creativity and community. I hope you will continue to follow along on my adventure AND the adventures of others.

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday each month in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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