Good thought.

Heather Blakey's avatarJust Nous

When I was teaching classes filled with students who tested all my ‘rules of engagement’ skills I invariably spent time examining reasons why we should be bothered writing in daily journals.

Tristan Rainer, in her New Diary provided a guiding hand. I remember having a printed sheet with some of her points such as journals providing a healthful release for feelings and tension; a place to advise yourself; a place to gain clarity and to make decisions; a place to rehearse future behavior and so on.

This article in the Bellingham Herald provides some good reasons why a would be writer should bother keeping a blog. I still smile when I remember Mike Browne’s blog about his lunch box. I had a whole project where students became lunch box spies and interviewed ancillary and teaching staff about what was in their lunch box. Insane maybe! But Browne did establish a…

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The Wall

My husband is a politician, my friends are human rights activists  and artists and musicians and teachers and doctors and nurses and in their lives they do  important things.

I mean they shape and influence lives and that’s good news for  us all because no way in Hell would you want me to shape the world you live in.

Trust me on that, I spent all week studying alien limb syndrome – it’s a syndrome where people are convinced that their own limb ( their hand for example) does not belong to them and is controlled by an outside force.

I pay attention to stuff like that because I write.

I write sometimes about Werewolves and once I wrote a story about a woman waiting for a bus and she is positive, and knows that the man standing next to her, the one wearing a blood red tie is the Devil himself.

She knows it, he knows it and they both know it at the same time and at the end of the story he goes on he wishes her a good day and she wishes him the same and the Devil goes onto do Devilish things and she goes to work just like it was any other day of the week.

That’s what I do for fun, that’s what I do and most of the time I think it’s important.

Until recently.

Now I wonder.