I’m going quiet this week. I’ve got a deadline to finish this next draft of my manuscript by Sunday week to resubmit it for the Publishable program (check my last newsletter to read more about that). I’ve taken the week off work to get it done and I considered going away to get it done, but instead I am retreating at home.
On Friday I received feedback on the manuscript from the Publishable program readers and it filled me with thrills that consumed me for the day. But I have had to calm those thrills down to do the work I had set out to do.
It has made me think about how we can create quiet spaces in our minds and lives. We become so caught up in the to-dos (oh, I love a list) and catching what is flying in the wind around us that our every breathe is often sharp and fast.
Since starting my sleep therapy, I have become even more aware of my breathe. The machine forces the air into me and as I lie in that liminal space between sleep and wake, it sounds…
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