I drove Emma to school today and to name the experience as "surreal" isn't quite the right word to 
describe how it felt.
I felt like everything in the world had changed since I left Bakersfield last Friday morning, yet everyone else seemed to be carrying on like business as usual.
For me, it was like an alligator walked into my life with a hurricane on her back and whipped up the most technicolor storm imagineable just with a shake of her tail.
Everyone else was walking around like it was an overcast January day in Bakersfield where the sun valiantly tried to smile through the clouds but not many people marching around to the beat of oil and agribusiness and ESPN even looked up and noticed.
I am going to post this quick update and then write my morning pages - 3 days of long hand stream of consciousness writing a la Julia Cameron of The Artist's Way and begin sorting through the mush my brain feels like it is constructed with this morning.
It is Day 3 of the Tribe Building Challenge at the SITSgirls. I've been having so much fun meeting new people and today it is Facebook Fan Page Day. I haven't been giving my Writing Camp page as much attention as I could be giving it, so this feels like a just-right kick start.
Please check out Writing Camp with JJS on facebook & hey, all likes are appreciated too!
Now it is time to do that writing and let the other tasks of the day begin.
Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.
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