Topic: WC - Daily Practice
Saturday 7:41am 31Mar07
Never did get out for another walk last night. I was communing with Warrior Woman. ha ha! I realize that I probably sound like a whack job with half the things I write about but of course if you are writing to live (the title of my blog) you almost have to be a character in your own life. You have to pay attention to the energy of things as much as the tangibles. I like looking at the months as zodiac signs to get a different feel for them. Yeah it's spring but I don't see spring until I see flowers and the weather is a certain kind of mild. There is always a delay in feeling a season because they aren't so cut and dried. There can and often is still snow on the ground when it's the first day of spring. Autumn can be more like winter long before the first day of winter and so on.
Anyway, I was communing with Warrior Woman last night. I prepared my equivalent of war paint which is changing my hair (since I don't wear make up). I shaved all of my hair, what was left of it, completely off. Yep, I'm bald. I forgot how wonderful it feels to rub my stubbly head. It's been so long since I've gone down to the bone as someone once called it. Looking at myself was a little scary of course because I know I'll have to endure the shocked comments and questions and expected explanations but I love the change. It doesn't get easier than this and I have a nice shaped head to boot.
In my steno last night I wrote Warrior Woman says then looked at all the situations that have been swirling around and wrote as if Warrior Woman were giving her take on everything. Some insightful stuff came out. It's a great writing exercise to use with your characters. Especially if you can write with both hands. Use your dominant hand (I'm right handed) as the interviewer and write the questions out. Then reply with your non dominant hand as the character. It's very cool. Because you have to concentrate so much on shaping the letters when you write with your non dominant hand it's like your brain gets into this other zone and what you write could well be from your character.
The original exercise is in a book called The Power of Your Other Hand by Lucia Cappachione. Her exercise has you using your dominant hand as yourself now and your non dominant hand as your younger self and going back to have your now self converse with your younger self.
With the use of the Warrior Woman persona it's taken my mind off the fuckery and/or taking it on with renewed energy and since it's a full moon on Monday Warrior Woman energy may be exactly what's needed.
I started my morning with finding the kitty litter all over the floor in the bathroom and beyond. Zelda has some crazy condition that makes her rip open bags and she ripped the clean litter completely out of the bag. I had to sweep it all up and put it in a bin so she can't get at it anymore. Such a brat!
Got to get out and get smoothie ingredients and beet juice ingredients and go see my herb guy for more essential oils. I'm out of lavender and may also get juniper.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
EY
