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Create / Thoughts on creativity

"Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy, pure creative energy"_Julia Cameron    I believe that we come here to create, and if we look around, everything is a creation. Today, I am feeling inspired by creative women, and have found a delicious new ( to me) author in a most unexpected way. Her name was Lois Wilson, and she was the wife of the  Co-founder of AA, Bill Wilson . Her memoir,  "Lois Remembers"  is the literature that is read during my Sunday morning Al-Anon meeting, and I have found myself captivated and inspired. As I listen to their travels & adventures I realize that I too, can enjoy life as they did. A willingness to create, listen and learn, has filled my personal tank with the fuel I need to keep moving onward and forward. Life really is that simple, just for today.

Forgiving ( Forgiveness) of Self / October 12th, 2022

 I have to forgive myself today, I am not a "super-human"anymore, the way I was ten years ago & running the shop business and having what I thought was a big life. And even that wasn't enough for me, I felt that I had more in me, I had to do more & show more. I took all kinds of work-shops directed toward helping the business succeed and then went to work & tried to apply it. At the Apple stores, both Old Pasadena & Glendale, I signed up for 2-3 workshops a week. iPhoto, Pages, and the old favorite, iWeb. I went to classes almost anywhere & everywhere, attending workshops on Wilshire Blvd at the "Small Business Association", while attending Trade Technical College.  In the end, I was exhausted & I am still tired, yet refusing to admit it. Like a fighter going down in the 5th round, I keep getting back up  despite the fact that I'm so done.  And after the combination of my fathers suicide & onset of menopause, ( and leaving a busin...