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Today

Today I endeavor to start anew.

Renewed and refilled with the ever changing essence that is me.

I hope to make it clear that this isn’t just some new year garbled filled with resolutions and promises for a brighter 365 than previous. Nope, I’ve always tried to keep myself away from that trap… excluding the year I resolved to watch more television because a commercial told me to. :)

No. I’d Ike to stress that this is different. This is something that’s been building and beginning in me for some time now but begins are simple: they happen. Starting is a choice and today I start to choose.

My mantra has always been a simple yet powerful thing, a single word to keep me moving when my strength is drowning. Flow. Like in Tao, I need to bend without breaking to withstand whatever storm blows my way. Nowadays though I know better, my strength isn’t so much my question as perhaps my will. With that thought in mind I look to the other half of Tao. To stand firm, an indominable force in it’s natural state.

My new mantra is ‘Just do it.’

I need something I can’t find, I make it.

I want something done and waiting for help is wearing on my bones, I do it.

Need this moved, I move it.

Need to know something, I find the answer.

I’m done with waiting, asking, etc. I will go get, go do, go, go, go!

I will be a force of nature, raw and true to my core.

I want to explain how I’ve come to these thoughts, the months that have been put behind so simple seeming words but I feel like I can babble on that for ages and that’s not my goal. Right now I just want to say it, this morning I’ve chosen to renew myself. To start.

This means a lot for every aspect of my life but today’s focus is mostly toward my writing. This morning as I lay between dream and enough awareness to know it was snowing outside I began to think about all my posts from the years previous. I began to realize that I’m not quite the person I was between those words. I am, I was but I am also something so much different. Everyday. So different.

Elephantis

So I was laying down after my wisdom teeth removal, watching documentaries on Netflix because I can find interest but not enough to prevent me from falling asleep. This time, even after pain and surgery, a story idea kept me up even after three of them. Go figure, when I’m in too agonized too get up and go pee I can still be compelled to waddle out into the living room and curl up in a favored non-sleep friendly sleeping space. You’d think I wouldn’t need to what with having the tablet right at my disposal and I don’t but alas we writers are creatures of habit.

I want to write a post apocalyptic story from the point of view of a young orphaned elephant and his great grandmother. Seeing the world through new eyes while remembering it from very old ones.

Interesting enough to keep me awake despite my eyes being so blurry and my movements slow enough that the autocorrect is finally my friend.

November 1st – I Am Ready

Good morning, November 1st. Time to give my fingers a warm up before I set off into NaNo land and fearlessly set sail into my novel though fearless may be a bit of an overstatement. I’m scared and delighted to be exploring the story I’ve set to my fingers.

It will be brilliant once I let go and face the truth between the paragraphs.

I can do it. I will do it.

Cleaned all day yesterday, made myself a wonderful little writing nest. I set up the tablet, a bunch of notebooks at my disposal, favorite pens, an inspirational book for when/if I get stuck and a lamp just in case.

I am ready.