Jocular Journalist
"Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying 'I love you.'"

~Judith Viorst, jocular journalist.

Labels: brevity, daily quote, I love you, journalist, Judith Viorst, soul, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women, wit

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Soulful Philosopher
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."

~Simone Weil, soulful philosopher.

Labels: daily quote, future, philosopher, present, Simone Weil, soul, soulful, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women

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Daydream believer and decorating my own soul…

Getty Villa Museum, Malibu, California

In my daydreams I explore the unknown, I’m brave, I’m empowered to be the purest form of myself possible, to express myself vibrantly, to be free to live life as I’d like it to be. In my daydreams, my destiny doesn’t seem so precarious. In my daydreams I am Jane Austin, Wonder Woman, and Carrie Bradshaw. In my daydreams I look like I stepped from the pages of Vogue magazine, write with literary prowess, make people laugh, charm men, and love openly. In my daydreams Mr. Big exists. In my daydreams I have good knees and a collection of expensive high heel shoes to be rivaled. In my daydreams I live in San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York in a fabulous urban house or apartment, or on the central California coast in a lazy beach house with the ocean waves a few hundred feet from my front door or someplace like Kentucky where the land is green, plantations are large and the horses are thoroughbreds. In my daydreams my passport is full of foreign stamps, money is not a constant worry and I have friends all over the world.

Author David Morell, creator of Rambo said in his keynote speech at the 2007 Yosemite Writers Conference that “daydreams are your subconscious bubbling up as your narrative voice.” I am a daydream believer, for in our daydreams our characters run free and have adventures. The trick for the writer is to transfer those adventures from the daydream onto the page. Or maybe the ruse is to live your life as if it were your daydreams.

There are times when I get lost in my daydreams…

Sometimes when my day job or the routine of responsibility becomes overbearing, when things aren’t going as I’d like them to, I escape into my daydreams, picture myself in a different situation, a different city, or a new house. It may seem strange, but I pay attention to the little details and decorate the rooms. Maybe I’m decorating my own soul for imagining myself living a different life calms the chaos of my day, calms the unrest of what should be and isn’t, calms the inevitability of fate.

And then there are days when I manage to capture my daydreams on the page and set them free. Those are days when I feel most like a writer, those are the days when I feel most alive.

Labels: David Morrell, daydream beliver, daydreams, imagination, soul, Writing

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