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  • Reconstruction on the Outside.

    I was surprised at how at ease I felt writing and even how peaceful I was inside, how comfortable I wrote my thoughts as they drifted by, as I looked upon this day, as I just seemed to write effortlessly.… Continue reading

  • My Second Childhood.

    I am reading the chapter titled “Basic Tools” in The Artist Way book by Julia Cameron and love her take on both. “Logic brain is and was our survival brain. It works on known principles. Anything unknown is perceived as… Continue reading

  • A More Artful Life.

    Here is an interesting view of creativity from The Artist Way, by Julia Cameron. “Spiritual Electricity – The Basic Principles.” “For most of us, the idea that the creator encourages creativity is a radical thought. We tend to think, or… Continue reading

  • The Ten Rules For Being Human.

    You Will Receive A Body You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth. You Will Be Presented With Lessons You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called… Continue reading

  • The Artist Way.

    December 1, 2004, I began writing Morning Pages, a tool in the book, “The Artist Way,” A Course in Discovering and Recovering your Creative Self, by Julia Cameron. Here Julia explains the Morning Pages. “There is no wrong way to… Continue reading

  • Life with no words?

    I listened to Deepak Chopra talk to John Francis who wrote a book called “The Ragged Edge of Silence”. He didn’t speak for 17 years. Yes, 17 years, but he did journal and he also gave up riding in gas… Continue reading

  • Grace and Courage

    As Alice Miller’s book comes to a close, she encapsulates her thoughts. “In this book (The Body Never Lies) I express hope that , as psychological knowledge grows, the power of the Fourth Commandment will wane in favor of the… Continue reading

  • Elders of the Church

    There are no coincidences in life and the fact that I am learning about more and more sexual abuse in my old church while I am reading Alice Miller is profound. She is literally writing about the hows and the… Continue reading

  • Children will suffer.

    From Alice Miller’s book “The Body Never Lies,” she writes… “My attempts to persuade the Vatican of the importance of early childhood experiences have revealed how impossible it is to arouse feelings of compassion in men and women who right… Continue reading

  • Survivor Self.

    The Drama of the Gifted Child – The search of the true self, by Alice Miller. Here is what she writes on the back cover of the book. “Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide… Continue reading