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Time Management Tip: Asking (& Living) What Will Make You Happiest?

Last night I was sitting in my living room, much like I am now, with my lap desk across my legs, wondering, “I am at a time crossroad. What shall I do now?”

The clock hovered on 7:35 and I literally heard this question in my heart,
“What will make you happiest when you wake up tomorrow morning? Do that! Do the thing now that will help you feel happiest in the morning.”

My heart asking that question made me happy right then and it even made me happy to make the choice to do a load of laundry. Usually I am not all that excited to do laundry yet when I layer the question upon the action it completely transformed my thoughts and opinions.

I knew what I wanted to wear today and I knew for a fact that outfit was in the dirty laundry pile.

I know Hafiz probably wasn’t thinking about chores when he wrote “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light,” and yet this is exactly how it felt to hear the question and then live it as I gathered my things to wash and then washed them, dried them, folded them and yes, put them away.

Everything shifted instantly. I heard the question, responded surprisingly and took action. No angst about chores, no inner arguing. Simply asking, hearing, acting and laughing to myself.

This morning I woke up thinking “How to best apply this technique?”

It may be used whenever you find yourself at a time crossroads, a time transition. Ask yourself, “What will make me the happiest when I look back over this next two hours,” and in fact, is the question that has formulated much of my planning for this season and into the larger scale future as well.

How about we look at this concept together.

I made a periscope video this morning on the topic to take you into your next inspired moments – and perhaps longer.

What will make you happiest?

Watch, ask, listen and act. And remember, always to laugh.

 

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 Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

  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. 

 Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

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Are You Ready to Take a Different Approach to Your Goal Setting & Reaching?

I have been approaching my goals differently this season.

I have always respected the process of stating one’s goals in writing, getting them on paper and then working full force on achieving those goals.

What I have often done in the past is this: I have taken the time to write goals and then they got buried in a drawer in a notebook somewhere. I didn’t interact with my goals once I set them or they became a vague idea of something I had hoped or wanted to do but never engaged with much again.

I’ve changed my approach as my life has changed.

It is just Samuel and me now, the girls are grown up and out of the house. They are onto their next adventure and consequently, I need to grow as well which for me means doing things differently.

 

A slightly different approach to goal setting - via intuitive art journaling & stream of consciousness writing

 

This fall season, I created a bucket list as prompted by one of my personal growth groups. I approached both the creation and the execution in a very different way.

I didn’t just write a list and put it in a drawer.

I wrote a list of categories and then I took my time in filling in the blanks via not only language, but also using art.  I art journaled. I am making a mobile with autumn colored book pages, die cut in the shape of leaves. I am continuing to work on both. I revisit the categories in my daily writing notebook.

I am allowing the how-to’s to gently enter my consciousness rather than stand underneath the end-result and shake it until whatever is loose tumbles out and I mistakenly or clumsily shout “Eureka!” and blindly follow whatever drops first.

The first droppings, I have learned, do not always morph into what is the most effective or productive. My art journaling makes my goals, my hopes and my aspirations into living and breathing possibilities which bend and shift and grow as I bend and shift and grow.

Julia Cameron reminds us, “Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.” It feels grounded to take this approach, one moment at a time.

 In taking a calmer, quieter, non-language based approach (which is really odd for a writer) I am also able to soak more of my spirit, more of my intuitive nature into the work. It is less driven by force and more open by flow, instead. It is more soothing, this gentle movement of color and objects and messiness in the process perhaps because, as Maria Montessori once said, “Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.”

 

Intellectual understanding comes from the actions, the gentle nature of the art finding its way onto the page. I know my goals are much more at the forefront of my mind than they have been in the past using my previous techniques.

 What have you got to lose from trying it out? The new year is coming soon – why not start considering what you want to create now, a little bit differently?

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  Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

   To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

   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. 

  Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

  Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook. (Thank you!)

   Follow on Instagram  And naturally, on Pinterest, too!      © 2015

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How to Write What You Are Afraid to Write & Feel Relief Now

“I try to stretch my own envelope, to write what I’m afraid to write.”

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

My friend Laura called me Sunday night.

“Oh, something happened tonight. I don’t know what to do with it,” she told me. “All I know is I feel like absolute garbage and I have managed to become paralyzed. I can’t think, I can’t move, I have a bunch of tasks to take care of before I go to bed but all I can do is obsess about what happened.”

Like me, Laura is a writer. Like me, she sometimes hesitates to use the most significant weapons in her arsenal to combat the unhappiness and dread she was feeling.

She had forgotten she could pick up her pen and put it to the page and begin the process of feeling better. All it takes is moving the pencil, tapping on the keyboard, letting the ink drip off the end of the pen and things move from stagnant to doing something.

 It took me a long time to have the courage to write about my son’s autism. While we were going through the transition period from not knowing he was on the spectrum to accepting the reality of what that meant and how to embrace his uniqueness fully, I filled notebooks with stream of consciousness writing.

I didn’t feel comfortable talking about it with friends and I had a difficult time finding other parents with children who had autism so I forged my feeling better, my healing, through writing what felt endless about my process.

I didn’t blog the process endlessly, I free wrote. I didn’t write a single poem about it as it was happening, I free wrote. I wrote stream of consciousness style so that my feelings, my emotions, my heart and my spirit would continue to flow without the restrictions of fear and self-consciousness engulfing me.

Laura and I talked a bit more about her “what happened”: she went to an event and came face-to-face with a man who had hurt her badly fifteen-years in the past. She had not seen him in eleven years and now they were sitting with a group of people who had no context of their history and both of them sat there, together in that group, for two hours. When Laura left, there was no further content.

She felt drenched in unfinished business.

She called me last night to let me know how much writing allowed her space to roam about her thoughts without concern of anyone else’s judgment. That judgment, she realized, included her own self judgment and lack of compassion.

Writing helped her begin to feel better.

What are you afraid to write about? What are you afraid to speak aloud?

To begin your process of feeling better, begin a list of subjects you haven’t yet given yourself permission to talk about either on paper or to someone else or perhaps even to yourself.

Take out a notebook or open a document and simply move your pencil or pen, move your fingers along the keyboard. I guarantee once you begin, you will also start to feel better.

Mary Shelley wrote, “The beginning is always today.”

Sarah Dresser wrote, “Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.”

Remember Alicia Stuskin Ostriker’s words that started these thoughts? “I try to stretch my own envelope, to write what I’m afraid to write.”

Start with asking yourself the question: “What am I afraid to write?”

Begin to love the question into a life now facing your healing by living the question and making the beginnings of your list, starting with “I am afraid to write….”

You’ve got this.

You will feel better.

And now, you write. Now you begin. Now you’ll start to feel better.

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 Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2016 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

  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. 

 Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

 Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook. (Thank you!)

  Follow on Instagram  And naturally, on Pinterest, too!      © 2015

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 If you weren't able to join us live, you may still benefit from the prompts via the Katch.me videos. Listen along and write, write, write (or take photos or paint or simply meditate or contemplate.)

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

  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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How Creativity Has the Power to Shift Your World for the Better

What do you think about when you think of ballet?

When you imagine people attending ballet, what sort of picture does your mind’s eye paint?

I see older, snooty people. I see people wearing fancy clothes and sitting near silently, watching the people on stage move their bodies in a foreign language the audience may or may not understand. I see chandeliers in the lobby, rich colored tapestries and I can sometimes, if I listen carefully, hear some audience members falling asleep.

This may not be an accurate view at all, it is simply what my mind conjures.

I don’t picture those same formal-clothes wearing audience members rioting with rage, I don’t imagine mayhem breaking loose. Yet this is exactly what happened on May 29, 1913, when Igor Stravinsky’s “Rites of Spring” premiered to a standing-room-only crowd in Paris at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

This surprising turn of events instantly became legendary. There weren’t people with cell phone cameras recording the incident. Few facts are known about what actually took place that famous evening.

What remains true is Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky created an extraordinary moment that opened a wellspring of creativity for those outside the norm of acceptability inside the status quo. Artists across genre convened separately together to make art differently, to toss out tradition yet at the same time use those skillsets forged in traditionalism to make work that was significantly and viscerally different.

I realized this morning for the perhaps three thousand twenty seventh time how much writing in a free flowing, stream of consciousness style frequently changes how I see what is in front of me whether it is the beads of water on a paper cup on my writing table or the smashed front end of a car just fractured in a car accident or the scabs on the face of a young homeless woman I frequently speak with and supply with books to read.

I was reminded again as I wrote my morning pages and for no reason at all decided to string together rows and rows and rows of two word sentences, translating one long sentence into a bouquet of other sentences, seeing how much meaning I could retain in spurts and dots and dashes rather than the natural flow of a more attuned and more familiar sentence structure.

Originally I wrote, “He grunts at me when I comment to him about my love for making him pancakes.”

In two word sentences (and one may argue whether any or all of these qualify as sentences) I wrote the following.

He grunts. Pancake making. Sacred smell. Translation lost. Adolescent whispers. “What?” vocalized. Nothing smiled. Coffee lips. Feeling ready. Let go. Almost forgot.

I went on to play with “mismatched” two word sentence that started with the clichéd “Tomorrow’s promise” with “tomorrow’s untruths” and “Tomorrow’s rips” which birthed this tiny sentence parade.

Stained yesterdays. Broken tomorrows. Shattered bluejeans. Expansive hallways. Torn concrete. Silver granite. Armchair colony. Choir suspended. Herald silences. Distinctive tracthome. (It is probably “tract home” but combined with “distinctive” I couldn’t resist cheating a bit to create a compound word.

Potent boredom. Frantic peace. Stillborn harvest. Containerized creativity. Listless passion.

I read this stack of phrases again and new images appear.

I argue with my idea infested imagination to stay here, to stay still to enjoy the combinations as they are and not relentlessly gallop after more and more and more.

I lean back in my recliner, satisfied with the writing as is.

I don’t have to take it any further today or any other day. And I may take it further. It is and will always be my choice. This love affair with words, with meaning, with the creative process.

I’m curious now, though, what you think about when you think about ballet.

What images dance into your mind?

Can you now conjure a riotous scene, of people so upset by their status quo being upset they behave completely contrary to their societal norms?

I challenge you to try it out, to purposefully create a changed scene in your mind.

You may use a different scenario and shift it around, just for fun. Then write or paint or sketch or collage it. Your interpretation may be abstract or as wildly realistic as you like.

Watch how suddenly your creative process, your artistry, shifts your perceptions - and your world - almost instantly.

Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

  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. 

 Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

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  Follow on Instagram  And naturally, on Pinterest, too!      © 2015

 

 

Continuing to Build & Process Autumn Goals - Jumping into Piles of Inspiring Leaves!

Make love tangible: what does that mean?

I translate it to mean this: feeling that profound emotion and creating something from it. Perhaps that “creating something” is an experience, perhaps it is a product, perhaps it is a conversation. Making love tangible means it is more than an abstraction, it is an experience that can be touched, measured, quantified and pointed to as a “something.”

When I add the question I’ve been using as I develop my Autumn Bucket List, my brain bubbling may sound something like this, “When I turn the calendar page to winter, I want to be able to report I made love tangible this autumn when I….”

Breathe that into your center and hear it again, in your mind’s ear or say it aloud to yourself, “When I turn the calendar page to winter, I want to report I made love tangible this autumn when I…”

I make love tangible when I offer encouraging words to a friend, when I pause to look a person in the eye when I speak a word of affirmation. I make love tangible when I write a letter and send that letter with a stamp and put it in the mailbox. I make love tangible when I share an insight on periscope and someone takes that insight and learns from it and takes action accordingly.

I make love tangible when I write this, here, and you read this, there, and you think of one small action you can take to make love tangible in your life as well.

I am purposefully taking my time with my autumn bucket list.

Participating in a local theater production has consumed my open time, so I haven’t been able to give this sort of activity my full focus. I hope to have some form of completion on my “list” by Monday.

Interesting, though, how taking my time and chatting about the process here on my blog and in other places expands both my vision and I am willing to bet, the application of the bucket list from “stuff I would like to do” into “stuff I would like to do AND may actually bring to fruition rather than just talk about it.”

What will you do to make love tangible today? This coming week?

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 Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

 

           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. 

 

          Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

 

           Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook. (Thank you!)

 

            Follow on Instagram  And naturally, on Pinterest, too!      © 2015

 

 

Living the Bucket List - in Process, Rough Draft Rather than Race to Do a Half-way There Job!

I’m living the question raised during my bucket list creative process. I still haven’t completed my bucket list – my intention is to have it done by the end of the week and will share more of the path on the way to completion –

For now, I’ll share with you how I am living the question by realizing what is most important to me by seeing how I am actually spending my life.

The proof lies in where I spend my time. If I invest my time primarily in one category,that shows what is most important to me in that particular moment no matter what my mouth may espouse.

I created these categories for my autumn bucket list as I art journaled on the topic of Passionate Possibilities for this Fall season.

 

 “Feeling Good” (Physical health)

 Make love tangible (Art/Work and Life/Work)

Receive abundantly (Life Work and Art Work)

Business breakthroughs (Life/Work in the form of infrastructure like website, mailing lists and product development.

Creative a-ha's (Life/Work and Art/Work and others, actually.)

Sacred memories (Spiritual growth in my home/world, travel, art - actually throughout the entire list - as this happens when I dance, move, walk, too.)

Family legends (along the same lines as sacred memories but specifically in relationships, even with people who aren't in my traditionally-thought-of-as-family: close friends, fellow adventurers, possibly you reading now.)

(PS - I can't spend time fussing to make this right, I need to live and love my autumn bucket list into being so I apologize for the imperfection in this blog post.)

Right now I am in the midst of tech week for “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” so my mind is deeply invested in bringing that work of art to life, collaboratively and to the best of my abilities.

My time investment here lies on the category of “Make love tangible” and perhaps “Creative A-ha’s”. It also floats into “Sacred Memories” and once the show opens and applause begins, “Receive abundantly” may come although not in a financial way unless perhaps I am discovered by someone who wants to pay me (a lot) to be in film or television.

I suppose it could happen – I’m open to the possibility, for certain.

I’ve also been spending a lot of time on Periscope, networking, creating content and practicing my craft.

This falls into several categories as well.

“Business breakthroughs” and “Creative a-ha’s”, “Sacred Memories” as well as “Make Love Tangible.” It may grow into “Receive abundantly” and “family Legends.” I’m primarily a storyteller in all that I do so yes, this definitely fits.

There is a glaring whole in my day-to-day living from my so-far living the question of my autumn bucket list.

Do you see it?

I have yet to work on “Feeling Good”. I haven’t been making my daily smoothies and I haven’t been doing much in the way of intentional exercise.

Here is where choice making comes in – as well as the power of intention of a bucket list. I can now purposefully dance along to some videos and make sure I have all the ingredients on hand to start getting back into my green smoothie habit. I always feel so much better when I make and drink my green smoothies!

Without my bucket list and my devotion to “figuring it out” through living the question, “When I turn the calendar page on December 21, what do I want to look back and see?” I might not have captured this gap in time for it to make a difference.

Now, in the midst of my busy rehearsal and business building time, I can be certain I will also pay attention to the “Feeling Good” bucket list intention.

PHEW! Watch here for the final product and hopefully for lots of productivity balanced amongst my categories.

Watch my periscope video here about the process I took on the way to getting a completed bucket list -

 

Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

           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. 

          Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

           Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook. (Thank you!)

            Follow on Instagram  And naturally, on Pinterest, too!      © 2015

 

Creating My Fall Bucket List (Passionate Possibilities, Pile of Leaves to Jump Into... Etc)

This post was inspired by the #OctoberScopers Periscope Challenge. I've included my video toward the bottom of this post.

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

– Louisa May Alcott

I believe in the power of intention partnered with action which starts in a space of vision, passion and purpose. This isn’t a half way thing, I believe in it with all my heart and all my soul.

By the same token, the phrase “bucket list” is downright annoying to me. How can I be passionate and purposeful about kicking the bucket? I feel like my subconscious mind rebels with language like that – so I prefer to say “my passionate possibility” list for Fall.

(And yes, the general population calls them BUCKET LISTS! so for today, see my passionate possibility list as… an autumn bucket list. An autumn harvest of potential. An Autumnal Pile of Leaves to Jump In!)

I admit it. I can go overboard with my quirky –

I spent time this morning working on the bucket list concept and realized I have some carry-over from earlier goals which made me ask the perpetual question, “What is up with setting goals (like finish my website) and yet then not taking time to bring that goal into action… over and over again?”

I sat back in my chair, feeling like a failure, as I scrawled these words into my notebook page.

“So what is up? Fear, resistance due to concern about failure, the fact you don’t really want to do that or you don’t really know what you want to do so you don’t make a choice and by default don’t succeed?”

Ouch and yes. Yes and ouch. There is some truth there.

“An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”

-Mary Kay Ash

I can guilt myself with the best of them. I know I have talents and abilities others might use with great gusto and zest.

The question I need to step into and live – rather than just talk about – is “What simplest step am I willing to take to discern whether or not that is a long term goal I want to reach?”

A Fall Bucket List (or Pile of Leaves to Jump Into) is essentially a list of short-to-medium term goals. When I think of it like this, somehow it all seems more approachable.

My basic art journal broke my bucket list into pieces:

“Feeling Good” (Physical health)

Make love tangible (Art/Work and Life/Work)

Receive Abundantly (Financial Health)

Business Breakthroughs (Life/Work in the form of infrastructure like website, mailing lists and product development.)

Creative a-ha’s (Back to Art/Work and Life/Work)

Sacred Memories (Spiritual Growth in My Home/World + Travel)

Family Legends (Along the same lines but specifically in relationships).

So for your purposes:

1.  What are the most important categories in your life that may or may not be reflected in my categories?

2. What are the words that inspire you the most? I said “Bucket list” doesn’t do it for me like it does for many others in our culture. I won’t use that in my final visual momento that will serve as a reminder of my Fall Passionate Possibilities.

3. What sub-goals might you list under each?

4. Crucially important: What simplest first step am I willing to take? For goals you continually list and don’t take action upon, What simplest step am I willing to take to discern whether or not that is a long term goal I truly want to reach?

5. What methods might you want to use to fully realize what you want to have happen in your life? Art journaling, list brainstorm, stream of consciousness writing, a conversation with friends or partner?

    I started writing this because I had an assignment within my Periscope #OctoberScopers challenge. This is a slightly nutty reason to insist upon finishing my list today, so I am electing to let it steep and sit and get clearer.

Watch the "matching" periscope video here:

Tomorrow I will revisit and revise and put a less-rough-draft version of my passionate possibility list as well as a visual art journal style poster to hang in my room so I may be reminded of my goals on a conscious and also a subconscious level.

This feels so much better, so much more personalized and yes, so much more me than Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

 

           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. 

 

          Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter:   and on Periscope for writing prompt, tips and inspiration daily created to ignite your artistic rebirth. 

 

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            Follow on Instagram  And naturally, on Pinterest, too!      © 2015

 

Poetry & Writing Prompts in the Park with Periscope & Josephine Preston Peabody

My love affair with words isn't a secret.

This week I launched a daily periscope series "Poetry and Writing Prompts in the Park."

Yesterday we featured one of my favorite literary grannies, Josephine Preston Peabody.

WORDS, words,
Ye are like birds.
Would I might fold you,
In my hands hold you
Till ye were warm and your feathers a-flutter;
Till, in your throats,
Tremulous notes
Foretold the songs ye would utter.

Words, words,
Ye are all birds!
Would ye might linger
Here on my finger,
Till I kissed each, and then sent you a-winging
Wild, perfect flight,
Through morn to night,
Singing and singing and singing

 

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world.  She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.

  To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at 661.444.2735.

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