May Update
As the dark skies of night illuminate with fractions of light bringing a new day to life, Fig, our self-appointed chief of household, awakens. He makes little noises and shakes his head to get me moving. It’s usually around 4:30 in the morning.
Skye might lift his head slightly before he returns to deep dreaming.
Fig is committed. He crawls up. And up. And up. He’s seven now and still learning how to be gentle. He wriggles and squirms into a place, elongated along my side and nuzzles his nose until he can give me a couple kisses. His tail is moving at a fast click and somehow he manages to roll to his belly for me to give him a scratch.
Skye awakens, envious and playful, and gingerly moves my way, paw crawl by paw crawl. He is such a sweet soul.
“Good morning,” I say in a quiet, sing-song voice. Fig’s tail hyper-wags. Skye’s yawn utters a sweet squeal. “Are you two ready for the best day ever?”
The Beauty of Coincidence
Coincidence is not Karma. Coincidence is about connection. It is reflection of your thinking, of your feeling, of your wanting, of your questions, your interests, your perspective. It is a display--it is PROOF--that you get what you think about. Hence the saying there are no coincidences. Karma is too vague, too airy, too punitive, subjective, judgmental and one-sided. Coincidence is logical math all day long. It is a direct reflection of you and your thinking.
Quantum Thinkinφ: Factoring in Possibility is a book devoted to the beliefs that frame my fiction series, Becoming Truitt Skye and is the flagship book to the Quantum Collection, which includes Quantum Wealth co-written with Amber Lilyestrom and Quantum Love co-written with KP Weaver releasing in early 2022.
My favorite things…
This month’s theme… BOOKS!
Book I am in awe of: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Book I wish I wrote: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Book that made me different: Forever by Judy Blume
Book that made me want to become an author: Jurassic Park by Michael Creighton
Book I would like to live inside of: Natural Wonders of the World by DK and, of course, the Becoming Truitt Skye series
Some favorites that might surprise people: The Miraculous Journey or Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and any book by Donna Tartt
Books I re-read regularly: The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.
Favorite book to gift: I Wish You More by Amy Krause Rosenthal (and Truitt )
Care to Share your favorite book? Best book you ever read? Book you wish never ended? Book you’re reading now? Next?
What I’m Reading and Listening to…
This. Book. Is. So. Gorgeous.
Artist Phillipa Stanton is such an inspiration to me! I wish I could swallow it whole and become that creative. She also wrote a workbook to accompany it! Eeep! Another book I love for inspiration is The Flower Yard. Incredible!
Looovvveee this mix!
May Magic! It’s got some fun ElectroSwing that I savor this time of year. I was inspired by the film, The Wilde Wedding, which is a fun romantic comedy with great music.
Go-To Chill Playlist
Nice & easy, is one I listen to for just about anything! I hope you’ll have a listen and pluck out the songs that resonate or favorite the whole darn thing and enjoy it regularly!
A Good Mystery
The Scottish setting, great plotting and excellent narration make this an absolute winner to me! I love a good mystery as I garden and hike. There are several books in this series to continue on enjoying throughout the season and beyond!
The Written Life
I love the question, “Where do I even start?” that I get from writers/students/attendees of seminars. I have a litany of answers that all boil down to… You start. Period. You get a notebook or open a blank document and write. You trust that the words, the teachers, the knowings, the ideas, the editing, the design and the publishing mechanism will all arrive right on time. Because they will. I promise.
Write to uncover the beauty and knowing you have within you. It is reserved for you.
And eagerly awaits your arrival.
I can't explain the magic of writing, so I will share an example from today. I’m writing in a chapter about time that takes place in Truitt's favorite room: The Reel Room. The reel is spinning and spinning, as it does, and neither of us know who will come out, but whoever walks from the Reel will have what Truitt, and the reader, needs.
Guess who it was? Ari-freaking-stotle!
Do I know anything about Aristotle? No. Thus, I pause from writing to look him up! And everything was suddenly revealed to me in a full and complete package: Aristotle maintains that time is a phenomena that depends on the soul. Can you even? What unfolds in this chapter is pure symphonic genius! It’s never me writing alone. It’s all of us, everything, flowing to the page. I invite it. I relish it. I am in awe of it.
You start. Period. Open the notebook or laptop and begin. xoxo
Honored to be Contributing Author!
“When someone I loved was diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia in the middle of the pandemic, I spiraled into an existential disquiet. Everything was going wrong everywhere, and I felt helpless. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society was there for my family in so many ways, including guidance and emotional support. I wanted to help them and also give myself purpose. I did what I do best, I wrote… and I asked others for their writing with only two requests:
It must be upbeat. It must be under 1500 words.
Their willingness to search for the positive became an unexpected time capsule of perseverance and pushing onward when so many of us struggled to make it through one day at a time.” —Heidi Ruby Miller
Before I say, “see you soon, beautiful. xoxo.” I want to let you know how excited I get to send this. I re-write each segment many times before it leaves my sacred grasp. I seal it with all the love I can muster. I anticipate you reading it over and over feeling spectacular and uplifted.
It carries an expectation of giddy glee. It holds the probability of happiness. And the amperage of eager suspense for what wonderful thing will happen next in your extraordinary life. I believe this, like my morning ritual with the boys, sets the forecast for the month ahead. I anticipate the best will always come. There might be a passing storm, but the sunshine will emerge again and again and again. Because that’s what I expect the sun to do.
I place the sweetness and happiness pulsing through my veins into every word of this love note in anticpation of its arrival to you. May it fill you with wonderment and joy.
I see you in perfection so clearly, so calmly, so generously moving through this life. I feel the lift in your step and the smile bursting from your cheeks out into this world.
Thank you. Thank you for you, you beautiful soul you.
