Day 15, NaPoWriMo

The taxman came and went, the snow came, the wind blew and blows yet… quite the April fifteenth.

I’m about 8 minutes from the end of The Power of Myth and what a ride. I want to grasp phrase after phrase of what is said. I’m adding both Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers to my mythical dinner table. That’s the one with Beethoven and other people I’d love to spend some time with.

In any case, while my mind has been racing alongside these two guys, my fingers have been flying along with my quilting project. To look at my fingers it’s more like being dragged along behind it a mile or two. And oops then it’s time to think about poor NaPoWriMo for a few. It’s sad to me that writing and quilting don’t seem able to lie comfortably side by side. Maybe in my next life LOL.

The fiery moment leaping upward flies
to where the air arches, shining with life
and beyond life and time to creation,
circles back and around again, again.

Tools

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From the Quote Box, Part II

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. โ€“ Henry David Thoreau

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Every day – From the quote box

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. โ€“ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882

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April. Time for the first

obligatory daffodil photo

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Day 14, NaPoWriMo

I spent a good part of today listening to Joseph Campbell talking with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth recorded before his death in 1987. Each section left me wanting more so perhaps I’ll continue listening to the areas he’s addressing here.

sitting with teacher
his ideas water to me
quenching and growing.

Fingers in service
to the thing I’ve created
my mind is peaceful.

Written on the wall:
Do the work. Just do the work.
It will make you whole

It will make you whole
Be in service to the work
Pain and joy and bliss.

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