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This is my blogchalk:
United States, Kentucky, Louisville, California, English, Gwen, Female, 36-40, fiber art, reading/learning.
What Are Nightly Notes?
- They're the opposite of Morning Pages.
- So they're written at night instead of first thing in the morning.
- They are typed instead of handwritten,
- They're public instead of private,
- They're guided by questions instead of flowing freely
- A completed entry consists of six questions and six answers instead of three pages
- Since they are public others are allowed to comment on them
For an interesting variation on daily writing see 100 words.
"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in
the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy
of canonization."
Harriet Beecher Stowe as quoted by Angeles Arrien
in Signs of Life page 63
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Nightly Notes;
THE QUESTIONS
- Who impressed you the most today?
- What did you do all day?
- When did you leave the house today?
- Where did you go today?
- Why didn't you get more done today?
- Queston for me?
ANY time you answer the questions you can email them to me and I'll post them.
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Tonight's Questions and Answers
Saturday, May 22, 2004
It is 11:07 pm.
My life is too small. My comfort zone is too narrow. How did these two things - my life and my comfort zone - get to be small and narrow?
Some time ago I started to write an essay titled, "Where have I been all my life". Like so many other ideas that I have the essay is entangled in my mind with so many other ideas that I have. This entangling in my mind has got to be dealt with soon so that I can complete an essay, a novel, hundreds of quilts.
I say soon because old age seems to be creeping up on me. There are signs: In a year my daughter will graduate from high school, it's been 23 years this month since I graduated from high school, today my sister asked if I was menopausal.
I'm 40. I must be looking older. I've acted too old for a long time. Acting old is really not how I've been acting. I've been acting afraid. That's much more accurate. I've been acting small and narrow. That's how my life and my comfort zone came to feel as they do.
This is a good sign. This knowing. Knowing means that one idea has unwound itself from the tangled threads of my mind. If you've ever taken the time to untanlge thread you know that every little piece is part of the tangle and every piece that is untangle makes it easier to untangle the rest.
One little piece that is unwinding itself is the reality of ADD or whatever you want to call an overly active mind, a brain that hops and pops and skips and jumps - a locomotive mind. The reality is that my mind is more active than the body that houses it. It has taken me 20 years to catch up with some of the things my mind was trying to process 20 years ago. I have to figure this all out soon.
*email me
11:08 PM
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