And so.
Once again, I find myself striving for balance in my life. A routine to my day that doesn't leave me exhausted by supper time.
My hatchling, after a summer of no set bedtime, has re-adjusted her internal clock to be awake, dressed, and ready for school each morning. This first week has run pretty smoothly.
This time of year has always felt like the beginning of each new year to me, as opposed to Jan 1st. This is the time of year I take inventory of my life, my junk food eating habits, the fact that I still haven't quit smoking, the fact that my summer of losing the winter weight is over and just didn't happen. The need to find time to write. To make time to write.
And so I plan to begin rising again with the sun to do my morning meditation practice before beginning my day. I plan to drink a cup of hot water with the juice of one lemon squeezed into it, before I even approach the coffee pot. I plan to commit myself to daily yoga practice and lose these 15 pounds of greasy, globby, tostitos fat.

The need to write is as necessary to me as eating, sleeping and breathing. While I haven't been blogging regularly during this transitional period, I have filled a journal this summer with goals, thoughts, feelings, scribblings, poems and plans.

While I have some current writing projects on the go, I have decided to give my muse a little nudge and a creative outlet. This is what my blog has always been to me.
I miss my village, my tribe and it means so much to me that you all keep reading and commenting even when I've been negligent lately in visiting all your blogs. So thank you, it really means the world to me to log in and read all your great comments.
I'm getting back on track.



I plan to re-read The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, and apply all the lessons, assignments and even go on weekly "artists dates". Cameron, in all her books, says how important it is to acknowledge our creativity, to develop our writing or art or collaging or painting or whatever...the point is to find your muse again and set it on a course of confident creating. Last year I participated in Jessie's and Leah's, Finding Water by Julia Cameron, and I loved the experience, and the gathering of bloggers in our community who joined together to make the journey through this book.

I will make time for this in the early mornings (I will write my morning pages every day.) I don't do a lot of things just for ME, to maintain a healthy balance in my life, so this is something I really want to undertake.

If any of you want to join me, we can do it together, support each other and bounce ideas off each other. Or, if you just want to read about my journey, that's great too.
I'm going to read through one chapter a week, write a post,(Thursdays), relating to the chapter and how it affected me, how I felt about what Cameron says, as well as post my "artist date" of the week.

Here's the groovy little blog badge I made, if you want to join me in this creative endeavour. Just copy and paste it on your blog and link it to mine.



Now all you need is this.
More on this later, so if you have any questions, don't be shy.

peace & creativity
xo