M. If you
could do anything with your writing career, what would it be? Where would it
take you? Don’t censor your self, don’t run your dreams through the filter of
realism. Give it to us raw.
One of the most inspiring things in my creative life is the list of books written by Julia Cameron. I remember how it was when she published The Artist’s Way. Very short. Now, she has a lengthy cross genre publishing/creating list that moves me.
I want to be like she is with her credentials.
I have built a crazy busy CV in the visual arts and theater arts even while I continued to write. Now, I’m going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. I have so many books waiting in my wings, it is time for them to consecutively take center stage.
I want to travel and speak, travel and teach, travel and
emcee, travel and facilitate and
sell my books as I do so to excited audiences.
In fact, I am going to write of one of those days now, as if I was writing an
email to my daughter, Katherine.
Dear Katherine,
It has been such a wild ride for the last few weeks. I can’t believe all the ground we have covered and how many hugs I have given out, so freely. I thought my limited “fame” of my website and ezines was big back in the day but this… this is that multiplied many times over.
I have to get several of my books reprinted due to this tour. The Autism Mommy series is huge – I didn’t expect that – and my trusty Discovering Your Passion programs and books continue to stir people everywhere. Poetry Pilgrim has taken off and my sessions in parks – my writing camps – have grown by leaps and bounds.
Can you believe this many years later I made the Passion Tour a reality?
Oh, wow, I forgot to mention how many women, specifically, I have touched in a meaningful way to support the history of our Literary, Artistic and Activist Grandma’s of the 19th and 20th centuries. I can see the same shock and then the contagiousness of learning about these women who went before us to change the world. Admiration instantly grows for these pilgrims, these pioneers, these foremothers to the women of today.
After my next stop in Concord, I am going to take a week away for retreat and rejuvenation. I’m not sure where I will go. I think I will make a vision board of some of my favorite places and then throw a dart to see where I will land.
I am so grateful we did this.
I’m so glad I was able to bring this long ago dream to fruition: bringing passion to the people.
With my profits, I am going to start looking at real estate for the Creativity Camp and Artist Retreat Dream of mine from so many years ago. I love this traveling, vagabond, gypsy life, but I also want a sacred solid one space I can return to and allow people to come to my place as a luscious destination.
Oh, honey, I am so contentedly tired, I need to let myself get some rest.
Have I reminded you lately how much you delight me?
With Much Love,
Mommy
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Writing this letter was awesome! I thought I would write two days in one, but I need to settle into this letter and write my uncensored five year plan tomorrow. Like so much else, it has been far too long.
I feel myself coming alive again, thanks to the after melanoma thaw.
It feels incredible.
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