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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

"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

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.

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.

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Thursday, May 13, 2004  
It is 2:52 pm. Where have I been for the past five months? Working. Sad but true. But it's over now. I know I'm not meant to work for others on a full-time (or close to full-time) basis. No I'm an entrepreneur. I'm an idea inventor. I've learned to focus more. I'm kicking ADD in its butt.

Will I answer the nighly note questions again? Will I continue to write the story starters? I admit rereading them was interesting? Will I continue to find things not often thought about? Maybe I'll do whatever the day calls for. That doesn't sound as if I've defeated ADD does it? Well, I didn't say I'd gone linear.



2:53 PM

Monday, December 29, 2003  
Things most people rarely think about - Seed Santuaries!
11:20 PM

 
Things most people rarely think about - Rain Harvesting!
I'd only remotely heard of such. Old-timey, rain barrel - who knew people actually collected rain in them? It seems most people in Texas knew. But George W. has never, to my knowledge, mentioned rain harvesting.

Anyway, I learned that rain is "soft" water. This is useful when dyeing fabric. Two useful, interesting, thought-provoking sites: Rain Barrel Guide, Rain Saver USA,
11:19 PM

Sunday, December 21, 2003  
It is 2:32 pm. I'll explain another day Fast Fiction Exercise:
Write a story about hair. Hair is the name of a very unlucky girl who lived in a place where looks matter to the point that they drove her mother crazy. so crazy that she name her daughter Hair. Now Hair did not have hair long like Rapunzal (sp?), nor was she bald like L.L. She had a nice healthy head of hair. but because her name was Hair people tended to notice hers and rate it unlike they would other hair that they came upon in the normal course of their day.
"I'd like it cut into a signature style," Hair said to her friend and stylist Shelia.
"Signature style?"
"Yes. Something that makes me think of me, Hair."
"Very funny."

They'd had this coversation before. And Shelia had been seriously thinking about what she could do to Hair's hair to make it into a signature style. They'd looked through hundreds, maybe thousands of photos and considered hundreds, if not thousands,

Hair's mother solved the issue. Natural. Leave it natural. Leave it be. Your hair knows more about being hair than either of you will ever know. Then End.
3:40 PM

Monday, December 01, 2003  
It is 10:48 pm. I'll explain another day
Fast Fiction Exercise: Write a story about a will.
He burnt it. Threw it out the window, poured - he didn't! yes, he did. He wouldn't have done that. It was important. You can't even write without rethinking what you just wrote a second ago. Leave me alone. I'm telling this.

I saw him. I saw the paper. I'd seen it before. Pink with scalloped edges. Mini. Little bitty paper. The stuff she always wrote on. I'd read it before. She left the houses to the animals and money for them to be treated kindly. She left the art to the children and the food to you. She left me everything else. Not that there is anything else.

Well, here he is. Let's see what he has to say about his having burnt the damn thing.

Daddy did you burn her will?

I threw it out the window and it flew away.
11:56 PM

Tuesday, November 18, 2003  
It is 11:11 pm.

• who impressed me the most today? Matt Damon and Ben Affleck - I watche "Good Will Hunting " and enjoyed it. They wrote it - that's the part that most impressed me.
  
• what did I do all day? worked on quilt-like-wall-hanging projects
  
• when did I leave the house today? 1pm
  
• where did I go today? community center, community center
  
• why didn't I get more done today? didn't exercise - think it might actually energize me
  
• Question for you? *What is the longest commitment you've kept? email me
  
  

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