June 2021
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Blossom Newsletter
Reflections:
Questions
For the last time, from my
archives: June titles poem
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Reflections:
Questions
As always, I find
myself wondering what to write about this month. Usually it becomes clear
quickly, not so just now.... very interesting.
I began yesterday, as I often do, by writing in my journal, here are those
musings: my critical inner voice says it would be more 'efficient' to sit at my
desk and type straight into the newsletter. Maybe so, if I am measuring the
time it takes to write a certain number of words. And yet, I never count the
words in these reflections for you, why would I?
The measure of 'value' for me here is not the quantity, nor even the 'quality',
if that subjective thought could be defined. Rather, I feel that when I read a
newsletter or a blog, my response is based on whether there is a nugget of gold
within the words. Is that true for you?
A little piece of wisdom that makes me stop, read again, maybe make a note, or
highlight the words if I am reading on paper. That little spark of recognition
is magical for me. It doesn't appear every time I read something even by a
favourite writer, yet often enough for me to know it is worth opening the
emails and reading. Sometimes the spark is more like a warm glow, a feeling of
companionship.
Many of you are writers as well as readers - how would you describe this? The
spark, the warm glow, something else?
That was where I ended yesterday, sitting in the garden. I now see that I was already
preparing for this piece, with the subject 'Questions'. Often for me that spark
I have just written about comes in the form of a question, of a prompt to
journal - maybe literal prompts such as those I include each month for you
here. Maybe simply something in the author's words that makes me curious to
explore.
For you, for your
meditations or journal - to flow-write, doodle, paint, dance, sing - however
you wish to express your thoughts and feelings: You may like to follow the
questions I wrote above for myself.
- What questions arise for you right now?
- Which will you choose to explore?
- What else is there?
- And, what else?
For the last time,
from my archives: June titles poem
A year ago, I began
this exercise of revisiting the titles of all the 'Reflections' in these
newsletters, back to when I began in 2007, so this is the last. I notice that I
may have mixed up the issues last time as that one also began with 'Seeing with
new eyes'. And that is fine. And I also repeated that title over the years, revisiting
old writing and reflecting anew. It just happens, because of my 'mistake' last
month, that the poem, whichever direction it is read, starts and begins with
that phrase.
I also notice, I used 'Rest' twice - and that is a perennial theme for me. One
of my challenges is simply allowing myself to do that, to rest. Finally, I see
that the line 'Subject, unknown' was also from a year when, in this same month,
I could not decide on a theme, a little like this time, with 'Questions'.
I wonder what you will notice, from your own experience, as you read this?
Seeing with new eyes
Procrastination
Rest
Asking for help
Keeping the flame alive
Strong and True
Emerging
Endings and Beginnings
Midsummer Magic
Rest
Flow
Subject, unknown
Seeing with new eyes
Seeing with new eyes
Subject, unknown
Flow
Rest
Midsummer Magic
Endings and Beginnings
Emerging
Strong and True
Keeping the flame alive
Asking for help
Rest
Procrastination
Seeing with new eyes
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with love,
Mary
