If you could choose some aspect of your personality to improve…and all it took was taking a pill, what would you choose? Choose something fun.
Pig-headedness, say?
Tell us the trait you’d like pills developed for to make you just a little bit nicer to be around. Just don’t make me agree with you. At least not until I take my Pigheaded Pills, okay?
My morning breakout session has a long title: “Accessing Transpersonal Dimensions of Healing Through Writing and Poetry.” Whew! I’m out of breath just saying it. It’s short and sweet, only an hour and 15 minutes including questions. What are the doors that poetry can open at the end of life? –dying hospice patients can write…
To greet you today, I’m offering you some links as gifts. For the meaning of the lighting the darkness at Solstice, read Susan J. Tweit’s Community of the Land’s post on how Luminarias light the night. I agree…nothing like rows on rows of luminarias and the smell of pinon under the startling clarity of a…
November 23rd through December 2nd…that’s where I am…and then three more days for the extention retreat. All of this, in the ballroom of the Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa on the shores of beautiful Clear Lake (California’s largest self-enclosed lake). I’ve traveled from St. Louis back to one of my homes and it feels good…
Jimmy Freeman and Tommy White at the scouting jamboree. Slept in the same sleeping bag. “Color didn’t rub off either one of them.” When Jimmy returned to visit Pop he told him, “You gave me dignity. I can stand up with anyone and be proud.”
Silent auctions can be good fund-raisers for organizations. Here at the Story Circle Network National Memoir Conference in Austin, we’re having one, too. Cleverly, after the rousing keynote address by Nancy Slonim Aronie (who turned out to be my sister in socks), the closing event of the evening was a lovely dessert buffet in the…
I just went back in my blog archives to find out…when did I really start blogging? Here’s what I dredged up from the deep:
Being late. I’d like a “Get Up and Go Right Now” pill” to get me out the door on time.
Actually, I have just stopped taking angry pills. It seems that every time I took one it acted like poison, and I expected someone else to die. I am not refilling my perscription.
Actually, I could use a brightly-colored assortment of pills for bossiness, obstinacy, opinionation (I just made up that word, and I like it), and interrupt-the-speaker-itis. Could they be flavored like butterscotch Life Savers, pretty please? 🙂
Yes, the butterscotch life saver interrupt-the-speaker-itis pills might be good…or maybe some pills to slip the person I’m speaking to so they might look my way to llisten.
A peppermint flavored ‘complainitis’ pill…in bright pink…to give me the pep I need to see the good drivers on the road and the kindness here and out there.
I’d take procrastinatitis, so I do things on schedule rather than when they are urgent. I’d also like some assertiviatis, which I hear will help me say “No” to work more often.