Tag: discipline
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Protected: Of Anger, Frustration, and Uranus Aspecting the Moon and Saturn …
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Of Actions, Integrity and Trusting Our Choices…
In stating, “…mothers and daughters cannot serve as best friends to the other…,” Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer add in an excerpt from Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship , that the …basic question… a mother must answer is: “…Do you trust your daughter to be an…
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Of Motorcyclists, Native American Sayings, and Words that Travel Across Time…
If you want to practice patience, try shooting butterflies. They are nothing, if not elusive. Beautiful and elusive. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.” On the way to school one morning this past week our youngest child noticed as a motorcycle moving past our truck and other cars then still and waiting…
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Promises to Myself, Blogging, and Passion…
When I decided to self-publish my novel I knew that I would have to set up a website on which I would post blogs. The basis of any website involves dispensing useful information. We do this through writing blog posts. Much like fellow classmates in my MFA Program in Creative Writing at Goddard College when…
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Of Dimensions of Experience, Mystery and Feet of Practicality…
Climax follows a time a crisis. As the story heads for resolution the protagonist must decide how she or he will evidence not only their survival and triumph of the great battle she or he has fought, but how they will manifest those that shift in consciousness, that change of heart, in a way that…
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Of Long Weekends, Discipline and Time for Dreaming…
This past weekend was a holiday weekend. I relish long weekends. They give me more time with my husband and children. The greatest challenge of any writer is finding enough time. Time to write and time with family and friends. The true writer writes. She or he doesn’t talk or dream about writing. They develop…
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Mentor and Story
Mentors are the wisdom-carriers in stories. They infect the protagonist or major character with knowledge and information needed to complete their quest. Mentors encourage the heroine or hero to believe, and have faith in her or his ability to meet the challenge standing before them. On a psycho-spiritual level mentors represent the Imago Dei, the…