Comments on: looking inside http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/ The shape of daily life. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Marilyn http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1264 Marilyn Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:38:24 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1264 Natalie also says, "Writing, too, is ninety percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write it pours out of you. If you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else." You do that beautifully every day, my dear. Natalie also says, “Writing, too, is ninety percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write it pours out of you. If you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else.” You do that beautifully every day, my dear.

]]> By: melanie http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1259 melanie Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:16:14 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1259 your words, as always, are so eloquent and honest. I'm rooting for you, hoping the process goes by quickly, and your dreams come into realization without too much waiting and anticipation. your words, as always, are so eloquent and honest. I’m rooting for you, hoping the process goes by quickly, and your dreams come into realization without too much waiting and anticipation.

]]> By: la vie en rose http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1245 la vie en rose Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:22:19 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1245 yes, it comes when your patient, and when your willing to move...to take the risk...to leap...to trust. beautiful words as always. yes, it comes when your patient, and when your willing to move…to take the risk…to leap…to trust. beautiful words as always.

]]> By: Elaine http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1244 Elaine Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:43:05 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1244 OK, see this is how I live MOST of the time. I am always afraid to pick up a pen or paints because what if it's not perfect? I can get words into my blog but cannot create stories like I used to; I have yet to touch my canvas or start my postcards. I guess I have to trust that it will get easier. Living in SoCal with the sun so often on my face, it's probably easier. Try this: don't write everything. Just write words or phrases to hint at what you're trying to say. Then take a nap or hot shower. For me, the words or phrases that are important will, as the hot water runs over my back, grow into full fledged sentences and ideas. Let me know if this works for you. I have other tools like this! OK, see this is how I live MOST of the time. I am always afraid to pick up a pen or paints because what if it’s not perfect? I can get words into my blog but cannot create stories like I used to; I have yet to touch my canvas or start my postcards.

I guess I have to trust that it will get easier. Living in SoCal with the sun so often on my face, it’s probably easier.

Try this: don’t write everything. Just write words or phrases to hint at what you’re trying to say. Then take a nap or hot shower. For me, the words or phrases that are important will, as the hot water runs over my back, grow into full fledged sentences and ideas. Let me know if this works for you. I have other tools like this!

]]> By: lizardek http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1242 lizardek Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:14:53 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1242 Oh Christina!! I honestly wish I could write like you every day :) What a perfectly worded and perfectly expressive post. Oh Christina!! I honestly wish I could write like you every day :) What a perfectly worded and perfectly expressive post.

]]> By: liz elayne http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1241 liz elayne Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:45:18 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1241 Your words are beautiful and true... "To trust that I will once again feel the divine moving through the branches of my soul like wind." Reading about your journey, your struggles and triumps encourages me to keep working on my creative dreams. Having patience and trust... Your words are beautiful and true…
“To trust that I will once again feel the divine moving through the branches of my soul like wind.”
Reading about your journey, your struggles and triumps encourages me to keep working on my creative dreams. Having patience and trust…

]]> By: Steph. http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1239 Steph. Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:33:12 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1239 I have had times like this as well. You are so talented though that even in your less inspired moments, you manage to put words together in such a way that it's like a poem. You are gifted that way, Christina. Hang in there...I think you're going to have a great new year! I have had times like this as well. You are so talented though that even in your less inspired moments, you manage to put words together in such a way that it’s like a poem. You are gifted that way, Christina.

Hang in there…I think you’re going to have a great new year!

]]> By: Karen Rani http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1238 Karen Rani Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:01:11 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2005/12/08/looking-inside/#comment-1238 What an interesting post...I know exactly how you feel, but my only suggestion (I have such a need to fix things - lol) is to just write...like when you're doing NaNoWriMo and let your fingers spill out the written diarrhea.....something good will come of it, much UNLIKE diarrhea.......course when diarrhea strikes, I often lose a few pounds........which is good.....oh God I HAVE to go to bed! What an interesting post…I know exactly how you feel, but my only suggestion (I have such a need to fix things - lol) is to just write…like when you’re doing NaNoWriMo and let your fingers spill out the written diarrhea…..something good will come of it, much UNLIKE diarrhea…….course when diarrhea strikes, I often lose a few pounds……..which is good…..oh God I HAVE to go to bed!

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