the goddess notebook

there is a bear above my office

I am little cranky this morning.  Our dogs started barking at 4:30am and would not stop.  They usually get excited if a deer is wandering about and choosing to eat a little too close to our house for their liking but this morning, the dogs were carrying on with such insistence, we all had to get up and check it out.  Lo and behold, there perched above my detached office is a fuzzy, wussy, lots of shiny hair, big, black bear.  Naturally, the batteries for my digital camera were charging so I can offer no proof of this event, but you will just have to take my word for it.  Quite a site.

This, of course, got me thinking...

Not so much about bears and what can happen when you live in a forest but about my connection with the natural world.  This bear thing made me realize that I have been a little disconnected from nature lately.  Spending a whole lot of time at my computer or wearing my headset.  Thanks to this bear visit, I am renewing my commitment to spend at least 15 minutes, outside, listening.  Connecting.  But not too close to black things if I can help it.

But, in the spirit of being one with the bear today, I might also have a nap this afternoon too...

order schmorder

I have angsted - love that word (not the angst bit but the word)- for some time about getting this book out of my head (and that of my co-author) and on to paper and one of the things that holds me back in the idea that I have to write it in chronological order.  No one told me to do that I just thought I shold do that.  But in angsting about the perfect order, the right order or what might be the order, I have nothing to show for it except for the masses of loose paper ideas I have piled up all over my desk.  But no more!

Today I am offically writing out of order.  It feels great!

44 days and counting

Yesterday, I officially signed up for Andy Wibbels write-your-book-in-45-days to fully -not just a toe-in test-the-water-kind-of-committment - but the full-on, get wet, dunk your head under commitment to write the book "the briefcase goddess" by June.  Egads!  I am already down to 44 days and coutning. Inspired also by Andy, I have ressurected this blog to get 'er done.  Comments welcome as the chapters, ramblings, organizing is birthed live, online for all to see.

the writer,

the blogger,

the briefcase goddess othwise known as...

Beth