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Tickety Tockety Journeying Offety

It is time, once again, for Stream of Consciousness Sunday. I had a long day yesterday, so I am praying for quiet time writing, creating and just being... with maybe some laundry & chores thrown in just for pleasure?

Anyway - today's totally optional prompt from Jana's Thinking Place  is....

Journey

When I got my new car this Fall, the first thing I thought was, “Roadtrips! I can take roadtrips!”

This, after Samuel insisted last year his limit was four days.

I keep hoping he will grow out of it because I love road trips with my family so much I can’t imagine not taking them because he is going through a prepubescent – hopefully not lifelong – phase. Emma is almost ready to start planning her post-junior-year college touring junket, so unless Samuel wants to stay behind in Bakersfield, he needs to agree to spend longer than four days on a road trip. It will be more like four weeks or longer.

My fingers stop moving. I can feel my thoughts bumping into a wall.

It feels too big and onerous (not sure if that’s the right word) to launch myself over right now. I know I have nearly eighteen months to work it out, but with a child living on the autism spectrum one must pre-plan for everyone’s sanity and enjoyment of whatever journey we take together.

I hear the television in the background. It is a former American Idol contestant talking about weight watchers. I want quiet. I hear another commercial. I want to journey without other people watching television within my writing earshot.

I want to journey on more literary paths, perhaps for writers I have yet to discover. I want to take those back roads others don’t know about much. I want to journey into my own unknown. I keep writing, twenty four seconds on this journey.

Tickety tockety time is uppity.

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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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post At Jana's Thinking Place.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott

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. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.

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Purple ~ The Color of Me ~ Lavendar, Grape, Royal... Purple

Today’s (optional) prompt: What color defines you?

Your five minutes starts now…

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A Director of a play I was in once said to me, concerning choice of costumes: “You may wear anything but purple.”

Purple defined Julie and may keep the audience disconnected from my character.

People see me and think purple. I wear purple eye glasses.

Samuel sitting on the purple stairs outside my home.

The pavement in my backyard is painted purple. There is a room in my house I lovingly call “The Purple Room.”

Ironically I have neither seen nor read “The Color Purple” and considering it is by Alice Walker, one of my word-beloveds, it surprises on many levels. Perhaps I

To make mixed media art pieces, I dye book paper... purple

ought to put it on my reading list for this year.

I like to create mixed media art from book pages. Which color is the most common? Need you even ask? Purple! I have to force myself to use other colors, though lately I have been using lots of my scraps to create stuff. I use scraps of purple, pink, blue, purply pink and purply blue with the occasional yellow and orange or red thrown in for a bit of a different look.

I am proud to say the mug I am sipping my coffee from this morning is a deep blue. Granted if you look long enough, you will note some very delicate shades of purple within the blue, but I am trying to get

The Purple Whale kept me company while I was on a Birthday Writing Retreat. (Note purple notebook)

variety. The journal I used to collect quotes and poetry yesterday is pink: decidedly pink.

Purple is my color. What else can I tell you?

 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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (find it at Jana's Thinking Place). .
• Link up your post there, too.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

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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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Not Your Normal Sort of Hangover

It’s one of those days. Last night’s emotional leftovers weren’t cleanly sweeped up by my little fairy angels like I had hoped they would be.

I don’t feel like coming up with anything to write.

The coffee is gone, so I am drinking flavored coffee.

Emma turned on old game shows when the world knows I would rather have some ridiculous Christmas special on. I had to say no once again and I feel guilty about it.

I keep getting older and am questioning, today, that “just keep getting better” claim I usually make. I am tired. Very tired. Of what? Of feeling like this. I know, naturally, I am responsible for how I feel, so with that in mind, I have been attempting to create a shift with all the Pollyannaisms I can muster.

So far it isn’t working very well.

I think I’ll just keep writing, just putting one foot in front of the other.

Have a great Sunday and please burn this blog post after reading.

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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (in the sidebar). .
• Link up your at Jana's Thinking Place
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

 

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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott 

SOC Sunday: Roughing It - Definitely Needs to Be Introduced at a Young Age

Perfect moment for some stream of consciousness writing.

I wish I taught my children about roughing it earlier in their lives. It is something that doesn’t translate into fifteen-year-old Emma’s vocabulary at all. Maybe if she falls in love with the right man some day it will, but for now I have to beg her or look completely pitiful for her to join me on even the easiest paved paths.

We went to Zion National Park this Summer and she waited in the car. She didn’t get out to check out incredible rock formations at The Arches National Park. I am planning to lure her to Yosemite this January with snow. I’m not going to mention anything like “The Great Outdoors” because… well, then she’ll turn off to it.

I, on the other hand, love sleeping outdoors. I actually love sleeping on wood platforms. A bunch of people in sleeping bags, my sleeping bag and me make for an absolutely lovely night’s sleep. It is natural: you are on a platform preparing to sleep and people start sharing stories they wouldn’t normally share. It is like the Kumbaya of sleep situations.

I haven’t done it for years, but the last time I did it was on a porch in Shaver Lake. We were sheltered a little bit by a roof overhang, but it drizzled and not one of us took our sleeping bags and went inside. Did I mention I knew none of these people before that yet after our sleeping bag, outside with no ceiling slumber party we were all fast friends.

My eldest daughter, Katherine, proclaimed she would start her children roughing it at a very young age. I hope she sticks to her word, because once that strong opinion begins, I haven’t found a way to getting it back.

(Timer sings!)

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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (find it at Jana's Thinking Place). .
• Link up your post there, too.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook (THANK YOU!)

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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Out & About with Stream of Consciousness Sunday

Perfect moment for some stream of consciousness writing.

Today we are free to write wherever the words lead us.

This week I have been venturing out without the protection of a band aid to cover the effects of my recent facial surgery for my melanoma. It has been an education in grace in how I respond to people. I had no idea so many people would have so much advice or say so many… well, under normal circumstances not exactly appropriate, certainly not polite, things.

I keep hearing my Mom lecturing my sister when we were kids, “Think before you speak!”

Sometimes I think I spend too much time in thought before speaking up but really, people, my scar is still fairly fresh – at nearly eight weeks? – and the fact I am out-and-about is, I believe, quite a feat of courage.

I go back to my doctor on Thursday.

I look forward to it because I have no idea what is normal as far as healing is concerned.

Yesterday I actually came in contact with my sits bones. I also have no idea how that is spelled and until yesterday, I didn’t know precisely how they feel. Now, I do.

I attended a remarkable yoga class. It was the least conventional, gym-fitness style yoga AND it was the most practical yoga I have ever practiced. I am going to attend another session Tuesday and I literally can not wait.

I keep hearing, as I move about, the instructor’s voice. Results? I am consciously moving my body in the world instead of unconsciously moving my body in the world.

What a blessing! And apparently the timer thinks so, too, because she just buzzed to tell me to stop typing!

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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (find it at Jana's Thinking Place). .
• Link up your post there, too.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

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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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This Old Dog is Bound and Determined to Learn Some New Tricks!

Perfect moment for some stream of consciousness writing.

Today our prompt is:

What new tricks would you like to learn or have you learned?

I would like to learn how to use a drill… well. I want to be able to hang curtain rods and new curtains. This doesn’t seem like it should be all that hard, but so far, I haven’t mastered it. It would help to own a drill or just borrow a friend’s drill for a weekend or so, I suppose.

I would like to learn how to Speak Italian. Seriously, I have wanted to go there so badly and I believe it honors the country to do as well with the language as I possibly can.

I would like to learn how to fly a kite. Can you believe I have never flown one?

I would like to learn how to use a really exceptional Digital SLR camera, you know the ones you can change lenses with and get crystal clear, amazing photos? I WANT THAT!

I would like to learn how to write grants so I could teach writing in prisons and halfway houses and anyplace where people need to learn how to communicate better (which is everywhere!)

I would like to learn how to play guitar… again. I was always a strummer and I would like to be a picker.

I would like to learn how to make my hair look prettier.

I would like to learn how to…. Grow things better. Or maybe have the patience to grow things better. I’ve been doing well with my houseplants but how I would love to have a beautifully smelling garden.

I would like to learn how to help my love feel better. He is going through a feeling bad spell and I don’t know how to feel better and keep moving even when moving feels oh so impossible.

I would like to learn how to make bookshelves and a window seat and cabinets,

Wow, I have a lot of new tricks I would like to learn!

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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (find it at Jana's Thinking Place). .
• Link up your post there, too.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

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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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The Traffic Jam in My head became, instead, Three Stories to Expand (or perhaps poems to write). Hmm. Interesting.

It is Sunday and beloved Jana, who hosts Stream of Consciousness Sunday,  asked us all to do something very simple in the world of stream of consciousness writing: just write, freely, dump what has been stomping around your brain asking for attention.

Hop over to the site and join us. It is so much fun!!

Ready? WRITE!

Permission to dump my brain? Seriously, Jana?

My thoughts immediately line up like cars in one of those four way freeway exchanges. Rumbling, roarding and not wanting anyone else to get ahead in line.... so since I only have five minutes:

There are these two older guys who apparently meet every morning at McDonald's. Samuel and I have been going there, him for breakfast, me for coffee, because he gets obsessed with any possibility of winning money so he could buy some more video games. Yes,  I'm serious and I play along so he learns something of frustration and disappointment without it being anything seriously personal. We Moms with kids on the spectrum do what we need to do, sometimes by complete accident.

Anyway - we sit in the same spot and so do these two older guys who just happen to go to the church where I used to go.

This one guy was talking about the way another church lady gives "full body hugs" and he told how only once did his wife complain when she said, "Do y0u have to hug her that way?" to which he played, not surprisingly, dumb.

"I have dreamed about those hugs," he said, "You could feel every contour...." and though I couldn't see his face, I could hear the longing, dreamy expression on his face. I'm starting to enjoy listening to their conversations and feel only slightly guilty about it.

Another thought, coast is clear!

I have been working on being unconditionally loving. Not long ago I had the unfortunate experience of being cheated on. Now, some people would throw their arms up and storm out of the room. I didn't do this.

Instead I had the strong awareness that my dear one had never had the experience of grace and unconditional love that I could offer, as someone who actually believes in such things. I offered him grace. He gratefully, confusedly, accepted.

It may have been more like six weeks ago - but with my surgery and all, I thought it was shorter.

The timer went off but one last thing: my melanoma surgery was a success. They got the entire tumor off my cheek bone so lately I have been sporting scarves. I never knew how much attention a woman would get for wearing scarves. People look at me, quizically, probably because they are not used to seeing blue eyed women with their heads wrapped this way.

Since I can't smile my usually geeky way, I have been practicing a Mona Lisa smile. One of my friends thinks people will think I was beaten by a man. Remember, though, I am practicing grace. I find it amusing in not a ha-ha way that when I discovered my dear one's straying and stopped yelling deliriously I said, "And I have to add your timing sucks!"

It was discovered, afterall, when I was waiting for my biopsy, waiting to see if it was cancer. I was thinking it was basal cell carcinoma, more common and less serious, but when I learned it was melanoma... wow. Anyway.

My brain dump worked. These were the two "cars" that got through (or actually three) the traffic jam.

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Five minutes gone, just like that!

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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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (found at Jana's Thinking Place). .
• Link up your you got it now, at Jana's Thinking Place!
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

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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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#SOCSunday: Today's (optional) prompt is... I am to which I responded...

It is Sunday and beloved Jana, who hosts Stream of Consciousness Sunday,  posted this prompt: I AM....

Hop over to the site and join us. It is so much fun!!

I am scared too regularly now. Ever since I went to the doctor and she said it was… what was the word, suspicious, my anxiety has soared, even when I think of the ridiculousness of it. This is the most common cancer. I have lots of it in my family. No one has died from it. But I am scared regularly now.

I am a mezzo soprano who misses singing in a group very, very much. Am looking for ways to change this fact – not the being a mezzo soprano, but missing singing in a group. I will be singing in a group, soon.

I am a Mommy Extraordinaire who is in urgent need of a break. Getting grouchy. I’ve had too much stress and not enough just me time without an agenda. Maybe…. Tuesday. Twelve weeks from now.

I am a lover. Of nature, of people, of possibilities, of words.

I am (somehow) collaborating on a phenomenal writing challenge in October: OctPoWriMo. Yes, a poem a day in October. Pretty cool, eh? We are even writing tips for people to use as warm ups in September. I wouldn’t have thought a week ago I would be doing this, but my friend Morgan asked and I thought, “Why the heck not? I can repurpose as needed in case I need surgery, remember, for item #1.”

I am stubborn.

I am an artist of band-aids. I have glued women in literary history on the bandaids I am wearing on my face. Tomorrow, though, I am going to sport a band aid with my daughter’s photo on it.

I am goofy.

I am forgiving.

I am procrastinating more than usual lately.

I am an autism activist, an equality activist, a whatever-it-is that I feel passion for activist. The world needs us. Change wouldn’t happen without us.

I am a Momschlep machine. In other words, I drive my kids hither and yon, following their whims, activities and whatever. It is the part of my job I like the least. Emma has less than a year until her 16^th birthday when I will give her keys and a kick out the door with a list of errands to run for me. Practice makes a great driver, right? And NO texting!

Five minutes gone, just like that!

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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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (found at Jana's Thinking Place). .
• Link up your you got it now, at Jana's Thinking Place!
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook (THANK YOU!)

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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Awesome Stream of Wonderful Consciousness Sunday

It is not even 6 am yet, but I took Katherine to the airport. Within the next half hour, she will be making her way to London with her ultimate destination Edinburgh in Scotland where she will study for a semester. Perfect moment for some stream of consciousness writing.

Today our prompt is Wouldn’t it be awesome if… ? Which I am modifying slightly by using WONDERFUL rather than awesome, just because I have used that before and flows for me... at before 6 am that flowing thing really matters.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if:

• My house would get painted by someone other than me because I had plentiful money to pay them.

• I wasn’t afraid of the biopsy I am having on Wednesday.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I had started my Christmas shopping allready.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I would eat more salads and enjoy them as much as chocolate.
  

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the educational system worked well for each child, unique and otherwise.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I lived in a place with a better school system, especially for Samuel

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if my garage was organized in a better way.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I had someone to arrange my speaking gigs for me?

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I had a brand new Mazda… I think the number is CX9?

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if women had the time to gather with other women for support, caring and creativity.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the teaching profession attracted only the best and the brightest.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I could hire a personal assistant, a maid, a coach and a personal trainer… tomorrow.

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if each woman who writes an SOCSunday post discovers a way to manifest her wouldn’t it be awesome list?

 

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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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.

• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.

• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (in the sidebar atJana's Thinking Place).

• Link up your post at Jana's Thinking Place.

• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

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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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I Dare You: Come to Know Just One Remarkable Woman a Little Bit Better

Five minutes, stream of consciousness writing for SOC Sunday. No give topic. Just write.

Here I am, another Sunday. I cannot write about what is obsessing me because it upsets me too much so I will purposefully write about something else.

I should say I will not, I refuse not… to write about what is obsessing me. I did that Friday.

I have another obsession? Women in History – especially in the arts.

I researched Berthe Morisot the other day and fell in love with her. Why don’t I know of these women? I still want to read the biography of Elizabeth Vighee-LeBrun – it is free to read online. I need to do it and stop talking about it.

Above: Berthe Morisot - The Cradle

It is so ancient I could even republish it.

Forbes has become a recent friend because they enjoy making lists of the Top 100 this and that and I am waiting for their Top 100 Power Women of 2012 so I may research more of them.

I have discovered some awesome modern day women from these lists.

Two come to mind right away: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Prime Minister of the Ukraine, now Political Prisoner Yulia Tymoshenko.

I write about them. I reach into their biographies as deeply as I am able with little published in English. I share what I find with people via my blog. These women are doing it. They are bravely leading nations into the future instead of being bewildered by a culture that too often squashes their voices under ridiculous debate of what is legitimate and what is illegitimate.

I have to be careful about “talking” about this because I get too carried away.

             Yulia Tymoshenko.

I’ve offered you some names of remarkable women. I dare you to choose one and google it. Learn more for yourself.

At least come to know another remarkable woman a tiny bit better.

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. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post to Jana's Thinking Place
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

 

Follow me on Twitter: @juliejordanscot 

Be sure to "Like" WritingCampwithJJS on Facebook (THANK YOU!)

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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