Just Me

  Photo credit: The blowup/unsplash I haven't done a celebration post for some time. Since good things have happened today, I feel I should mark the occasion by writing a celebration post!   And I have reason to celebrate today! Even now, as I write this, I am smiling. I am just really happy.   But I am also feeling very grateful too. Just so immensely grateful for the good things that happened today. They were REALLY good things!   So here are the things I have to celebrate from my day:   1. I wrote an article which I THINK might be a good fit for a magazine I have dreamed about being published in and I HOPE it will be accepted by.   I got the idea this morning right after I woke up. I just had a title. I put that title down onto a blank Word doc, thinking it could be a blog post. Then I did my morning workout (Calisthenics). As I worked out, I thought, you know what? That "blog post" could be an article. And I soon had a bunch of ide...

  Today was a really good reminder of why I decided NOT to try to follow any kind of schedule on a Friday. Fridays can get a little crazy, and that’s what this particular Friday was. Mondays can be crazy too, but I usually do try to stick to my schedule on Mondays.   But Fridays? Nope. Forget it. I gotta leave as much time available to get done what needs to get done on a Friday. I try to finish things on a Friday. Just wrap things up. That will usually take longer than the time set aside for it in a schedule. So I stick to my To Do list and try to get as much done there.   And I did get some things done today. I got ideas for poems for the TWO new poetry books I am writing, so I wrote them. (Yes, I am writing two poetry books this month. Along with four nonfiction books.) I now have an idea for the cover for the one poetry book I started writing first this month. Now if only I could figure out a title! I know I could give it one of the titles of the poems but, ...

I usually don’t pay too much attention to my dreams. I usually just think about them then get on with my day. Past experience has taught me that I can never again allow my dreams to have too much influence over me. I cannot obsess over my dreams like I used to. Yes, they are fun to study and learn about. Some of my dreams provide interesting insights. But I had a very painful experience and ended up hurting people just from getting all obsessed over my dreams! So, no more of that.   But the dream I had last night keeps really tugging at me. It brought back painful memories and made me once again question whether something I want to do is a good decision or not.   First, some background. I lost my hearing when I was 13. I caught spinal meningitis and that was how I became deaf. My hearing loss was gradual; it was several years until my hearing was completely gone. This was devastating for me. For 13 years of my life, I was immersed in the hearing world. I enjoyed list...