journal

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he writes: Dear diary...I means journal. Yes, dear journal. That's what I meant to say. Whew. Anyway, we have yet to discover America, and the crew has become increasingly rebellious. I have decided to turn back if we have not spotted it by Columbus Day. Will write again later if not killed by crew. P.S. Last night's buffet was fabulous, the ice sculptures magnificent.

We were always eating expired things. Milk, bread, biscuits, cake. We forgot about them as they sat around the house and just as they had gone bad, we put them in our mouths. Chocolates I brought back with me from Australia, cheeses in last year's Christmas hamper, juice from the last time someone decided to go grocery shopping. We didn't always realize they tasted funny _ not everything curdles and a two-month-old orange can be just as sweet. When we did, it was usually too late. Sometimes it wasn't. We finished what we had started anyway.

The power of the pen is landmark of life.

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.

You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost.

Without written goals, we fail to plan and to run with single-minded purpose.

Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life.

A stream of thoughts flows through one__ mind at a sacred-time.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.