I haven't been writing blog posts freely lately. I've been sticking to what feels like "prescriptive" writing. Today it felt so good to just set the timer and write.
Thank goodness for Stream of Consciousness Sunday!
I just pressed the timer and my hands won’t move. I don’t want to speak, I don’t want to write, I don’t want to tell. So much going on, wanting to spew.
I’ve been bellowing a-ha’s onto my morning pages but for the first time in my life, I don’t want to share them, I want to hold them. I don’t want to put out what is happening, what is where, what might be there, what I feel like because then.. I don’t know, it becomes dangerous?
I become accountable?
In the past when I wrote it, put it out there the process of forgetting began. I don’t want to forget, I want to stay present enough to process and for once and for all integrate knowing there isn’t a destination - there just is an is.
There just is an is.
There
just
is
an
is.
There is power in that.
There just is an is, there isn’t a place or a box with a big purple bow.
I have a question I’m living. I’m stepping into, “What would I make space for if I let my exile be a place of freedom rather than a place of condemnation.” I don’t need to be my own jailer.
I need to be my own wing-tender.
The five minutes still isn’t up.
Amazing.
I spoke I didn’t die yet, I put something on the page that may or may not make sense to anyone else and that’s just fine. What matters is I made it through this five, I can make it through the next five. It may sound like melodrama, but isn’t much oflife a melodrama - a comedy, a tragedy, a documentary?
There is just an is. An IS! As is.
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This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
- Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
- Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. This is writing in the raw.
- Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
- Link back to the AllThingsFadra.com post (feel free to use the SOC Sunday graphic).
- Add your post below (be sure to use the permalink to your post, not your blog’s URL; and only NEW posts please).
- Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.
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