IWSG October and Freedom

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Welcome to October and the winds of change...

First off, we have finally, after 16 months of it on the market, sold our house! And there was much rejoicing! We are now the proud owners of… no house! We are technically homeless, and if I must be homeless, I prefer to do it this way, since my parents are being so very generous in allowing us to stay with them until we get our feet back under us. I love my parents! It still hasn’t quite sunk in all the way that the house now belongs to someone else and we are free but I'm sure it will hit soon…

I must share, that though I must still work full time for now, and since our situation is so up in the air, I found it wonderfully comforting last night, that a day after the papers were signed, the first thing I thought of while readying for sleep was how I want to fit writing time into my overloaded schedule. Having the burden of an unsold house lifted from my/our shoulders, knowing that we are now free to move on, put writing right up to number one on my list of things I must have back. 

I don’t yet know how I will make this work, but now that I am released and ready to move in a new direction, I’m eager to see where writing will take me. I'm tired of that "block on my desk". I am ready to feel whole again…

The awesome co-hosts for the October 4 posting of the IWSG are

 Olga Godim, Chemist Ken, Jennifer Hawes, and Tamara Narayan!

Please visit them and thank them for co-hosting this month!

IWSG Wednesday July - How Does Your Garden Grow?

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Late again. Vacations in the summer sure mess with my  schedules! At least I got it in on the right day this month! I spent all day today working in my daughter's and son-in-law's yard. Over our almost three week stay here in Ohio, I've been planting items she bought but never got to, things I bought for her, and cleaning up a bit of the stuff already growing. Writing a bit, yes, but I have found a wonderful and fulfilling feeling while working these past few weeks in their yard.

I love to garden almost more than I love to write. But since we decided to put our house on the market I have done basically nothing in my yard. Why should I invest more into it when I'm (hopefully!) going to leave it to someone else soon? So this sense of peace I have found while gardening, I have enjoyed to the fullest. I love the grubby way my gloves feel, my dirty feet, the sense of accomplishment I am experiencing. This is the feeling I crave and love when I write as well, and though I have been doing a bit of writing, nothing like what I usually do has been done and I have felt like I've let myself down. Until I get in the yard. Then everything goes away, just like it does when I'm writing. When I write I am also creating, cleaning up and planting new things while taking care of what is already there.

Writing and gardening. To me they go hand in hand in feeding my soul...

A happy flower from my daughter's Ohio garden!

 I hope you have something to do that you enjoy and, that feeds your soul as well. Happy July!

JULY 6 QUESTION: What's the best thing someone has ever said about your writing?

The best thing someone has ever said about my writing is that they couldn't put the book down!
 
The awesome co-hosts for the July 6 posting of the IWSG are Yolanda Renee, Tyrean Martinson, Madeline Mora-Summonte , LK Hill, Rachna Chhabria, and JA Scott! 
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