not-quite Journaling, 63
Out
of autumn’s
bones, she springs
gloriosa--a
warming rebellion
for
the Winter Solstice.
12/21/2023: I know this gloriosa daisy will be dead rather soon, but
for right now… “It’s alive!!!” I hope the Winter Solstice added a bit (or a
lot) of warmth and liveliness to your day--goodness knows the whole world
can use some bright.
When
life breaks,
I
stitch stories to whole
my
pieces together.
12/24/2023: Do you have a piece of writing or art you go back to again and again… when life’s kicks get too brutal? Well, this is mine. I haven’t written a new story or added any chapter to my existing work in some time. I’m starting to feel the lack. I haven’t been slacking, just tired and nauseated and bleeding and growling at a headache that refuses to let me go. I will see my doctors in a couple of days, tests have been scheduled, and just thinking about all the time I might (will?) be spending at the hospital increases my exhaustion. I’m going to write myself a story to relax to; something dark and delicious sprinkled with red and black, gardens and skulls, love and defiance, books and hammers--all my favorite things.
I
can’t
be
all
I was,
but
I will reclaim
some.
12/31/2023: My
goal for 2024 is to accomplish the goals I set in 2023, which I should have
completed in 2022, because I made a promise in 2021, which I planned in 2020,
from a list I started in 2019…
All right, the truth is that I’ve no idea what I did with any of those lists. I can’t even remember which goals got done and which didn’t. So, I’ll make it easier for myself, in 2024, and keep my goals list short and doable: I Will Reclaim Where I Can and Adapt Where I Cannot. More on this in future posts. Right now, I wish, I wish, I wish that the coming year is a bit kinder to you, to me, and to the whole wide world.
Also,
I might’ve paraphrased the whole goals bit from a meme by an unknown author.
- for Poets and Storytellers United--Friday Writings #108: Beginning.
"to whole my pieces together" -- I love this turn of phrase so much, so brilliant! Happy New Year, Magaly. May 2024 be an awesome year for you!
ReplyDeleteThere is so much love and life within you, I hate that you have to endure so much. I have claimed the stregnth of 2024 and I share that with you. Wishing the best year for you. Hugs and love my friend.
ReplyDeleteMagaly, it isn't nice when we lose something important, I've done that also
ReplyDeleteWriting? I have a writing blog that no one but me can access. I practiced all aspects. But i quit because that got boring. I think it sid help.
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Jim
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Out of autumn's bones she springs Love that and that second one is just brilliant I hope for you that the rest of this year will be good to you Take care xx
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of reclaiming parts of oneself...and adapting where one cannot... marvellous way to put it. That is like a whole prompt.. I feel a poem rising up to meet it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Magaly. Despite the challenges, which must be, at many times, both irritating and boring (at the very least) this post is full of vitality! Yes, lovely use of the word 'whole', and word-play. 'Reclaim' is a very good word too. And love your vibrant and well-named gloriosa.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and yours! I think you are the warmth and liveliness in each day, despite the health challenges.
ReplyDeleteThat first one is a blessing of a poem!
ReplyDeleteI like "reclaiming what/where I can". And "to whole my pieces together." That can be enough and so much hope for the future.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful tribute to that gloriosa daisy hanging on! It surprised me, as I took a photo just this morning of mine, a late bloomer at ground level.
ReplyDeleteNice to see the gloriosa daisy.
ReplyDeleteAs I type this tomorrow will see the first weekend of the New Year, the days, weeks and months move on so quickly. Sending my good wishes for 2024.
All the best Jan
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Sitting at my desk trying to remember 2019, quite happy I don't make goal lists or resolutions any more. I stopped at the end of 2018 after a horrible year of hospitalizations, septic shock, near death, multiple surgeries ~~ our son Carl. It's less complicated, I highly recommend. Every word of your post tickled my fancy, filled my heart. You are such a talent. Will be thinking of you as hospital, tests, treatment are navigated, sending gobs and gobs of energy.
ReplyDeleteyes. Keep stitching. Its really all we can do, keep stitching our lives together when they fall apart. xo
ReplyDelete"When life breaks,
ReplyDeleteI stitch stories to whole
my pieces together."
I love Reclaim!
I think I have given up on goals, which is really not a good thing. 2023 was not a good year for me, so no goals for me this year, maybe take another trip to (Taiwan? Netherlands again?). Ah yes, maybe try to write some stuff, poetry and a short story for a competition. 2023 was quite barren.
ReplyDeleteHave a safe and healthy 2024, my friend.