Have you noticed this? The media outlets are choosing sides and are so focused on their message that they seem to be zealots. They fling facts at the audience in desperate sound bites, without much back-up. No solutions are given. I think they have lost sight of the big picture.
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National Novel Writing Month is back. November 1, 2021, I face the challenge of writing a novel in a month. Some people run marathons and others compete in games. This challenge for authors is our form of competition. But we compete with one’s self. It is a solitary marathon of words with the prize being finishing 50,000 words in a new novel in thirty days.
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What scares you in this world? Lots of things scare me. I have spent much of my life with some fear or another looking around the next corner for the bogeyman. Most of these fears are unfounded and a few are not. It is the ‘what ifs’ that stir up fear. When we get past, ‘What if?’ we need to ask, “What are we afraid of? And what is the true danger?
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Most of my career I worked in the public sector. In my field unintended consequences are a big concern. Anytime decisions, policies, and/or actions are taken, we consider the possible outcomes and what might be the unintended consequences. This process includes determining as many “what ifs” as possible. Good intentions can have hurtful results.
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What do you think? Do I leave the year behind, rush headlong into an uncertain future, or ponder the past and see how it applies. Like so many of us, year 2020 has switched up my perspective. It is the year when it fell apart. When things didn’t work out as planned.
Continue reading “A New Year with Experience”
Mountain air surrounds me as I venture out of my cocoon. We visited our property today. It enveloped me in the trees with the wind shifting through the branches. No words can describe the beauty of the Creator. Continue reading “He Showed Me!”
The NaNoWriMo writing challenge has me hyper-focused write now. A word whirlwind surrounds me. There are eight days left in this year’s competition. It is time for “No rules writing.” Continue reading “No Rules Writing!”
Yesterday I got discouraged. In the morning I looked up, the Full Beaver Moon was setting for the day. It was beautiful. I thought; is the moon laughing at me? It seemed to say, “I still have a pull on the earth.” Continue reading “When the Beaver Moon Smiles”
I started a post on Sunday. It didn’t feel right. The post seemed to be the same old, same old from Milly. A big fat yawn! My writing bored me. I stopped, took a breath and figured out I needed to adapt. Continue reading “Adapt!”
Milly Really! 