A Room with a View

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The more room you give yourself to express your inner thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge. - Marianne Williamson

"I'm glad you've gotten some free time. Seems like you've earned a little breather. It's fascinating that you are spending your free time writing! Ever the intellectual. What are you writing?" she texted. 


And again in person, during our lunch break, she inquired again.  

I told her I've been encouraged to write daily and that one of the best ways to accomplish that is by committing myself to a daily blog post.  I explained in quite some detail how it was meant to be a narrative --that writing would be a way of finding my own voice. I explained that it was quite different than the bland, "I woke up. I ate breakfast. I brushed my teeth and went to work."  I gushed how much closer I observe the world for possible blog post ideas.  Maybe it's an article.  Maybe it's art. Maybe it's something that happened to me and I'm describing it in a way that is new, fresh, inventive, or touching.  

I also told her I'd give her the link sometime to check it out. I haven't yet, but I just might.  

If there's anyone I don't mind reading my thoughts, real or aggrandized, it would be this friend.  After all, she willingly took me up on this intensive 270 hour yoga training. That, in itself, is quite a commitment to spend an extraordinary amount of time with another person. On top of all that, she takes my classes. And regularly we surprise each other with little thoughtful things.  My kids look forward to little Amazon Prime packages of children's books that show up on our doorstep from her family to ours.  It's a beautiful relationship/friendship that I'm not sure how I can keep up sometimes.  But that's the beauty of it.  It never feels as if we are trying to outdo each other with thoughtfulness.  

But this is not about her, although it could be.  

It's about how surprised I was that I had responded to her simple questions with a myriad of reasons why I need this outlet. Yes, it's a way to refine the craft of writing. But it's so much more.

"So the goal is to write a book someday?" she asked.

"Of course," I responded.  

I have a book idea in the works and an opening scene almost complete.  Just this week a short story emerged from a strange and creepy experience.  I dare say that none of that would've come to mind if I hadn't been much more diligent and feeling a great desire to write down, create a grounding place for my thoughts.  

This is what this blog has become.  It's a little room with a view.  Everyone's got one in their mind's eye.  It's just whether or not they choose to write it down the way they see it.  It's whether or not they want to share it with the world.  There is something in the sharing that makes it become something more than just a passing thought.