Home from a proper Anniversary dinner with my husband. Fourteen years of married bliss with a few fights mixed in here and there and some damn hard times. But like all couples who make it, we have been willing to keep working through the obstacles and to keep loving one another through it all. Communication. Marriage is all about communicating. So we went to Eighty3 grill at the Madison Hotel in downtown Memphis.
Never been. Fabulous meal, great service, good conversation.
I wrote again today. I showed up and worked on “the novel.” Still cannot believe I am really doing this, writing a novel. It just goes to show you that setting an intention works. Asking for direction, trusting in the process, showing up day after day, waiting for the word, the thought, the sentence, the idea, the phrase that fires the starting gun. One, two, three, go. The horses leave the gate and no one knows who will cross the finish line first. Writing a novel is like running in a horse race.
You saddle up, you wait for the gun, the inspiration. and then you write until you cannot write anymore. The next day, you saddle up again. It does not matter if you win, (publish), or not. Just get the book cross the finish line. Do not quit and do not get discouraged. If you do get discouraged, do it anyway. Just give it all you got and get to the finish line. Do not hold back.
Who’s counting? Me. One and 1/2 glasses of wine. For whatever reason this is important, as a part of this One Year, One Day at a Time, I will be accountable for how much I drink. I think of it as a practice.
Writing into the Light 