2- Alcuin of York 
on June 28 2007
Don't know where to start? Seems like you're doing just that. Now you just need to pick one - any one you'd like - and decide whay you need to write about it; then the what; then start scribbling.
Anstey:
Deshitify? Maybe someone should invent a deshitifier. I'd be happy to send 535 to congress.
Alcuin
3- Anstey on June 28 2007
Papa Smurf, I'll kick in that many for the Executive branch and all the little nasty departments, bureaus and services.
we need to put leanne on that.
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- stephan
4- Laurie on June 29 2007
Seriously, I would LOVE to read about giant dancing hamburgers!
5- White_Feather on June 29 2007
I'm laughing at pajama bottoms, black thongs, and sexual frustration at Walmart. THAT sounds like new motherhood - I think you have your poem! I also think that the intensity of having recently had a baby (and I mean, like the whole first year at least - after EACH baby) . . . the swelling of hormones, the changing neurochemistry, the lack of sleep and sex, continued physical demands if you choose breastfeeding . . . yeah, it's hard. It's not at all shocking that you'd be finding it hard to write. In Islam, there's the concept that a woman is on her own personal jihad (holy journey . . . not war) during each pregnancy and two years following the birth . . . that it's a time of inward reflection. Writing is an inward activity, but reflects outward.
6- Anstey on June 29 2007
For reflection to exist there must be motion in an outward direction. Either that which is reflected is moving outward and is reflected back inward OR that which is moving inward is reflected back outward. There can be no reflection otherwise for that is its nature.
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- stephan
7- White_Feather on June 29 2007
hmm. i love your response. perhaps, though, we can reflect our heart to our soul, our intellect to our heart . . . reflect pieces of ourselves within, giving room for that wisdom to grow, before projecting it outward.
but, Julie, i don't mean to justify NOT writing . . . keep at it! i just think it's helpful to remember the natural expansions and contractions of living . . . or at least, i have to remind myself of that with some frequency!
8- Anstey on Jul. 3 2007
of course, i've been thinking about inward and outward for two days now.
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- stephan
9- Julie on Jul. 3 2007
Thanks, everyone, for your encouragement.
Julie:
I really appreciate your sharing on this. The idea of a mother-to-be/new mother being on a nearly a 3-year-long spiritual journey is wonderful -- and so true. What I'm finding though, is that there is just SO MUCH to take in from those experiences that it's hard to process them, overwhelming to reflect. So I find myself feeling the need to write, to make progress and take a step back to see it all more clearly, but, it's such a daunting task, so it gets put off "til later", "til they're asleep," "after I get some rest," "after dinner," or whatever.
I think I need some "white" time to just be.
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I will write the "sexually frustrated in Walmart" piece...
1- Anstey
on June 28 2007
Sometimes when your all blocked up, the key is to write through the rut. Just let all the shit out.. and don't worry that it's all shit. You can go back and de-shitify it later.
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