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Now - on with today's inspiration -
Quote:
"Once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Questions:
How would you describe an excellent, high quality friendship?
What do you hope your friends think of when they think about you?
Lists:
Make a list of 5 to 10 admirable qualities of your closest friend.
Make a list of 5 to 10 of your most admirable qualities.
Bonus: Write an email asking your friend to respond with a list of 5 to 10 admirable qualities in you.
Traditional Writing Prompts
When I was a child, I thought I was....
When I was a teen, I thought I was....
Ten years ago, I thought I was....
Now, I think I am.....
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
Welcome to Let Your Words Flow: a Daily Quote, Prompt and Image for your Creative Inspiration.
If this is your first visit, you will want to visit our Let Your Words Flow Guide so that you will receive the most value from the life changing content you find here.
Now - on with today's inspiration -
Quote
"Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you in the right place." Mandy Hale
Questions
What was one of the best wrong turns you ever took? What came next?
What was the most recent time you wandered about without a destination? What happened?
What do you really want to write?
Lists
Make a list of 5 - 10 places you never wanted to go
Make a list of 5 - 10 places close to where you never wanted to go that you would like to go.
Make a list of times the "wrong thing" turned into the "best thing" in your life.
Traditional Writing Prompts:
When I took the wrong turn....
My right place looks like....
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
Welcome to Let Your Words Flow: a Daily Quote, Prompt and Image for your Creative Inspiration.
If this is your first visit, you will want to visit our Let Your Words Flow Guide so that you will receive the most value from the life changing content you find here.
Now - on with today's inspiration -
Quote
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
Anne Sexton
Questions
What joy are you currently sharing with others? How is that going?
What aspect of joy for your life work or business would you like to expand upon? Why?
Lists
Make a list of 5 - 10 Joy filled memories
B0nus: Do a free write about the top three joy memories (or more, as inspired.)
Make a list of 2 - 5 joys that you experienced in the last month.
Make a list of what made the above joyful experiences so wonderful?
Traditional Writing Prompts
If Joy was a person, she would be.....
When I see joy in my life, I see....
(to continue, add the other senses - I hear, I smell, I taste, I touch, I feel...)
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
I wait for something brilliant to ride the wave from my brain to my fingers.
I delete most of that sentence a as it feels too stupid to occupy space on the monitor.
I add it back, remembering it is the process, not the product – at least much of the time. At least for right now.
This afternoon I went to the Art and Spirituality Center and created, just for creativity’s sake.
I don’t usually go there to finish anything, ever, these days. I go there to make progress and for the most part, to allow myself to get lost in the creative process found when projects are stacked in piles and randomly selected for attention. I realize this is more than likely unusual. Most people go with a set intention and leave satisfied.
I am at the point in my creative life it is best to go simply to go and allow the process to scoop up the moment and pop out whatever wants to be born rather than me forcing something into fruition.
First this cast off garage sale find then that stencil on that piece of long forgotten wood, waiting to be escorted to the dumpster until I came along, optimistically believing something would want to be born on its tawny skin other then nothingness. I wasn’t particularly pleased with all of what I did today, but I was pleased to have made progress.
I was pleased to playfully experiment without feeling an attachment to any particular outcome.
I didn’t have to come home with a woven potholder or a greeting card to be sent to no one since my address book was lost so long ago IU have no idea where to look for it.
My mind flutters to ice cream prior to leaping on the very short bandwagon topic of annoying people before I close my eyes and stop the freight train threatening the keyboard.
I shut this document for three days.
When I return, I note while this isn’t necessarily brilliant – actually, it isn’t brilliant at all – it serves a significant purpose. There are some interesting word combinations and I enjoy seeing this youngish version of me showing up so readily and so authentically at the keyboard.
I cherish that about myself.
I also cherish the concept of progress above all. I admire my ability to passionately pursue creativity without attachment to any particular outcome.
I cherish the reality that I am going to swing way out of my comfort zone and publish this on my blog as is.
No editing my voice or prettying up this phrase or that: I am simply going to go unabashedly with what is here now.
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
My first of the #365feministselfie project: My word of the year "BOLD" coupled with the desire to tell the truth of me via images... very bold!
I am not one of those people who can distill "who I am" or "what I do" into a nicely wrapped, carefully coifed package. I prefer my multi-hyphenated, free spirited life to a life in a box marked "profession" or "sports team fan" or "someone-else's-something-or-other."
I am even having a hard time getting this written.
I want to share myself with others - I want to document life and the impact I have on the world simply in being myself.
I've been a documentarian for my entire life, but the timing of leaving the conventional workplace fifteen-years-ago and building my career on an online platform which included writing and imagery, the way I expressed myself changed and continues to change.
Six years ago I started taking self portraits: in the beginning I used my point-and-shoot digital camera and became quite adept at blind composition. This skillset was, I believe, what lifted the visual inner editor and forced her out of any level of my consciousness.
I did a couple projects of documenting myself for a year at a time. It was less common then, so I had to literally convince myself I had not become a crazed ego-maniac, but rather this was about something else. This was about self discovery and documenting my world and in doing so, documenting the rest of the world.
It worked.
This conscious, simple act changed how I saw myself and continues to impact me now.
In January, 2014 I somehow became aware of the #365feministselfie project and was immediately hooked. This was a chance to document my life alongside other feminists and in doing so collaboratively, we could share the message of today's feminists with the world.
It is like a massive "This is what a feminist looks like" t-shirt on visual parade via a sea of women, being exactly who we are on a specific day and time for an entire year.
It gives us each a chance to become comfortable with putting our real selves on display.
Personally I gain an opportunity to further my skills in storytelling, one frame at a time, this time without paying much concern to vanity but instead, to story: mine and the universal story of women and humanity.
I am coming to know the other women in the project via instagram and flickr and twitter. I love all the feminist Mommies, the women in my age group - approaching cronedom and proud of it. I enjoy all of us with our gorgeous culturally perceived imperfections which I find remarkably evocative and more than anything, purely and absolutely beautifully just right.
The first month is nearly over.
I have not missed a day yet, though I have come close several times and had to snap quite cliche or tried-and-true "Damn, I'm tired" photos right before turning off the light to go to sleep. I have captured the process of the early stages of grief over the end of a relationship.
I have captured the meeting of my first grandchild.
I have captured my interactions with my children and my Godson.
I have purposefully posted less-than-flattering photos.
It reminds me of when poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote, "What would happen if one women told the truth about her life? The world would split open."
You may leap in at any time. You don't have to be a woman to participate, you simply need to identify as a feminist. You may not even be completely comfortable with that label, given what some slivers of society have made that mean.
I simply hope you will become engaged in your own version of this process.
Tag your photos on instagram or twitter or flickr or facebook #365feministselfie. I can't wait to get to know you.
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
Syncronicity took my hand and brought me to a place called "Bloggers for Peace" - a monthly gathering and link up to posts and blogs who are devoted to increasing peace on the planet. I read the post from Breathing Space , caught the idea and ran with it.
Although I am not always blaring away my "I want to be an integral part of world transformation" it is always somewhere in my brain and definitely in my intention, only I realize now as I write how long it has been in the forefront of people's experience of me and my writing.
I also realize to make the planet more peaceful, I need to devote myself - my spirit, my mind, my body - to internal peace. With that in mind, I thought I would leap in with some of my own "peace mantras" to guide me in 2014.
I also plan to make images for each mantra, since seeing visuals helps me a lot.
Many kudos first and foremost to EveryDay Gurus.com who created this movement.
Now, my mantras for 2014 - all amidst my overall theme of BOLD. Bold peace alongside...
1. We are love, we are peace, we are.....
2. Believe in peace
3. Receive peace
4. Open with peace
5. Grow peace
6. Experience passion
7. Share compassion
8. Rejoice always
9. Love, Love, Love....
Finally, this is important: from EverydayGurus.com who started this blogging event:
"Put instructions on your post for others to join the group or link back to this post. This will help grow the movement. Can you imagine if we get enough bloggers to join so we can have a post on peace everyday? Imagine the impact we could make if everyday the internet would have some new creativity/energy/emotion/positive vibration about peace. Imagine if we linked all these posts together to create a web of peace and positive energy. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one…”
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
Image Prompt: A half open window - tell a story of your "half opened window."
Welcome to Let Your Words Flow: a Daily Quote, Prompt and Image for your Creative Inspiration.
If this is your first visit, you will want to visit our Let Your Words Flow Guide so that you will receive the most value from the life changing content you find here.
Now - on with today's inspiration -
Quote:
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
What stories about your business/life work want to be told?
What stories are you carrying within yourself? What roadblocks keep you from telling them?
Bonus: begin writing one of those stories now, one sentence at a time.
Lists:
Make a list of 5 to 10 stories do you enjoy listening to/reading/watching the most.
Make a list of 5 to 10 stories you tell regularly now. (for example, remember the time when....?)
Make a list of 2 - 5 stories (or more) you want to start telling.
Traditional Writing Prompts:
I automatically smile when I remember my childhood story of....
I started on my journey because....
On the day my life changed, I.....
Thank you for your reading & participation in Let Your Words Flow! Please come back as we offer new prompts to spice up your blogging, writing and creative thinking every day!
Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
I drove Emma to school today and to name the experience as "surreal" isn't quite the right word to describe how it felt.
I felt like everything in the world had changed since I left Bakersfield last Friday morning, yet everyone else seemed to be carrying on like business as usual.
For me, it was like an alligator walked into my life with a hurricane on her back and whipped up the most technicolor storm imagineable just with a shake of her tail.
Everyone else was walking around like it was an overcast January day in Bakersfield where the sun valiantly tried to smile through the clouds but not many people marching around to the beat of oil and agribusiness and ESPN even looked up and noticed.
I am going to post this quick update and then write my morning pages - 3 days of long hand stream of consciousness writing a la Julia Cameron of The Artist's Way and begin sorting through the mush my brain feels like it is constructed with this morning.
It is Day 3 of the Tribe Building Challenge at the SITSgirls. I've been having so much fun meeting new people and today it is Facebook Fan Page Day. I haven't been giving my Writing Camp page as much attention as I could be giving it, so this feels like a just-right kick start.
Now it is time to do that writing and let the other tasks of the day begin.
Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
Welcome to Let Your Words Flow: a Daily Quote, Prompt and Image for your Creative Inspiration.
If this is your first visit, you will want to visit our Let Your Words Flow Guide so that you will receive the most value from the life changing content you find here.
Now - on with today's inspiration -
Quote
"The journey itself is my home."
Matsuo Basho
Questions
Consider your recent journeys, both metaphorical and actual trips you have taken from your home to elsewhere. Which journeys have been the most fruitful and what makes that so?
In one sentence how would you craft your definition of "home"?
Lists:
Make a list of 5 - 10 physical spaces you would like to visit, see and journey toward in the not-so-distant future.
Make a list of 5 - 10 most powerful journeys you have experienced so far in your life. BONUS: What is it that made each particular journey so powerful?
Traditional Writing Prompts:
Home is...
I remember home to be like....
My journey is...
I remember my journey as if....
Thank you for your reading & participation in Let Your Words Flow! Please come back as we offer new prompts to spice up your blogging, writing and creative thinking every day!
Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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.
I am a part of the SITS Tribe Building Challenge and I want to make it easy for my TRIBE members to find my social media links every day of the challenge.
Meanwhile - I am writing at the Pensacola International Airport. I am waiting to board my plane back to Bakersfield after visiting my daughter, Beyunca, and her new son, Jaxon. I miss them even now. Being a first time Granny I didn't know what it would be like to fall in love with my Grandbaby but head over heels I am!
I feel like I have many blog posts to write from the entire Florida Panhandle experience. I've been exhilarated during much of it, but I also have had many thought provoking moments.
I have never traveled in the Deep South as an adult. This morning I drove a bout eight miles into Alabama and I might as well have been traveling to another world.
Yesterday I climbed 177 steps up a lighthouse that was first put into use in 1859 and is STILL in use today.
I went to a Mardi Gras parade, I saw lots of glorious beaches, sunrises and sunsets. I visited cemeteries - its one of my quirky things. I saw a huge plantation and spent moments communing with the Florida State Bird.
I snuggled and hugged and fed and burped and changed diapers.
I thanked some very young Marines for their service. I ate Irish food and Barbeque and fried green beans. I passed on the fried pickles.
I laughed and I cried. I asked the baby's pediatrician a lot of questions.
Beyunca and I told stories and shared memories and laughed and laughed and laughed.
I miss my other babies even more now.
For those of you who are young moms, treasure every moment of your children's lives. It's impossible to spoil them with love, it is overindulgence that does that - there is a difference. Speak to them with care and respect and they will speak to you with care and respect.
Thanks for reading my rambling blather. I hope on the plane I can sort some of my thoughts... I promise most of my blog posts are usually much more thoughtful than this!
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, 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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