Gathered Leaves

Listen to "Gathered Leaves" on Spreaker. It occurred to me. I've been a daily writer of three pages or more for twenty five years. Everyday! 4:30 am. A lot of giving trees have been used to keep these pages locked in forward emotion. Each page is a leaf. I say that because during so many conversations with published authors we take the time to laugh about how the words we find on paper really aren't ours. It came from the trees. Writers are brought in to scratch the blizzard white off the canvas. A great friend asked mentioned to me yesterday how much he liked listening to the beginning and end of The Choice podcast. It's when I read from the daily writing he doesn't care for. I get it. Even I sit there trying to figure out what the man holding the writing instrument is trying to bring forward. That's what makes it fun! If we always knew what we were thinking and talking about life would be boring. Daily writing isn't penning out a love letter or jotting down poetry. It's about whatever! It's how the universe is moving through you at that very second. Stream thinking. It doesn't have to make sense. The best part is nobody has to understand it. Being an artist and trusting your artist self means making yourself always available to participate with something you weren't a part of until you stepped outward and joined the amazing energy around you. On this podcast the subject is storms. We'll spend weeks watching hurricanes slowly pacing across the face of the ocean but never find reason to pay close attention to our own storms until they hit. Learning how to identify the first breath of wind that creates your storm. How to keep your storm off shore. What did you learn from this storm that will keep you stronger the next storm? Just a thought that fell from a giving tree. Like a leaf. Daily writing.