tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78790145726181027552024-02-06T21:28:07.668-08:00Free Range StoriesFree Range Storieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01882977142239766970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879014572618102755.post-47172307926234667252012-03-01T15:04:00.001-08:002012-03-02T05:19:28.401-08:00Courtship StoriesI love the love stories; how people first meet and find their way to each other. I met Paul when the Hendersonville Community Co-op first opened its deli on Dec. 11th, 1999. I know that because we stood next to each other at the kiosk filling out forms to be eligible to win prizes. I was aware of Paul because he was taller than I am. I am six feet. I paid attention.<br />
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He turned to me and said "Do you think I'd be eligible for more prizes if I had kids or pets?". I said, "Get a dog". Paul was tall and playful. I was aware of his presence as I shopped. I ran into a friend and we sang some carole on aisle 4. I was really singing to the tall man. <br />
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When I went to leave the co-op, I saw that he was no longer in the deli. Too bad. I drove off and as I passed Barnwell's, I saw him walking on the side of the road. He didn't walk like someone who had to because of a DWI. His posture was elegant. I passed him by and felt such a strong sense to turn around, which I did.<br />
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I pulled up next to him and rolled down my window and looked at him. I had no idea what to say. A moment is pretty loaded when you pull up in front of someone and engage them and don't say anything. I finally did say, "You're a pedestrian". It just came out. He introduced himself. "I'm Paul, the pedestrian." I asked him out right then and there and the story continues. It's a good one. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879014572618102755.post-84419625718797889832011-11-30T10:54:00.001-08:002023-08-21T10:00:37.493-07:00Living Stories<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How well have you lived into your stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What faces, rooms, smells, feelings, emerge with your memories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I</span> can unearth the view from my life over the years and see my own personal "lost and found". I affirm the brilliant, treacherous, intimate course I have taken in the branching points ofmy life. I realize that I love my stories, the light and dark of them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The process of recalling and writing our stories is powerful. I am so new to blogging and will be working on navigating my way around. It might be best to call me or email me at freerangestoriesdr@gmail.com to have a conversation about what support I might offer you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7879014572618102755.post-27362385133512348882011-11-15T06:11:00.000-08:002017-03-16T10:21:41.682-07:00Therapeutic Writing<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Write a book!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write an epic or a vignette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Just write. I have years and years of stories and I have learned to dignify the well lit ones that are full of delight as well as the darker ones that were work to live through</span>. I would no sooner discount them than I would fire my best teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">What are your stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What faces, rooms, smells, feelings, emerge with your stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> R</span>eflect on life at your home, at your table, in your community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was wonderful? What was missing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">What did you long for and who do you cherish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who inspired you towards freedom and love? Where do you find your stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">right brain</b> works as the creative agent, recognizing new information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A child’s curiosity is tuned to awe and wonder since much is brand new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our right brain registers images, understands without knowing, and takes in all stimuli without needing to organize it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the home of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BIG picture. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">left brain</b> is our personal archivist and coordinator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes everything the right brain has already recognized and finds a place for it to make sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It grooves on order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It integrates, catalogs, and allows for simple thoughts and actions to happen with relative ease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our left brain is often the voice that offers resistance to writing because it isn’t as comfortable with random associations and the questions of where to begin, what to say, how to end….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I chose the word "Writing" and wrote all these words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then I wrote my vignette.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Here’s my cluster transformed into a vignette. </span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I never ride so fast as when I write. I move at the speed of light and shadow. I chase my thoughts; corral them until I find what I mean to say. My chaos settles around the fire. In the quiet, they touch me. I sleep deep in moonlight, a cowgirl in soft moonlight.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Paulo Coelho in his book, "Warrior of the Light," gives us a vocabulary a personal legend is somebody's blessing, the path chosen for him. It gives satisfaction and passion that carries on day to day leading to the fulfillment of dreams. Write as a means of expressing what your life is all about, including your passion, beliefs and what you believe you were born to do.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></span><br />
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