I am a writer and I am a teacher and I am a poet and I am enough and I am here and I am a mother and I am a partner and I am a woman and I am a daughter and I am fearful and I am excited and I am alone and I am with you and I am deserving and I am loving and I am kind and I am frustrated and I am bored and I am tired and I am despairing and I am lost and I am hopeful and I am shadow and I am a voice and I am words and I am worthy and I am a book and I am a phd and I am happiness and I am sadness and I am loss and I am child’s pose and I am warrior and I am savasana and I am the earth and I am love and I am divine and I am all and I am this and I am that and I am heartache and I am envy and I am anger and I am distrust and I am judgement and I am innocence and I am guilt and I am (un)forgiven and I am regret and I am pride and I am intelligence and I am tears and I am a body and I am this body and I am a soul and I am desire and I am freedom and I am trapped and I am multiple and I am singular and I am white and I am solitude and I am feminism and I am my children and I am a blade of grass and I am a ray of sunshine and I am distress and I am my family and I am facebook and I am the sea and I am the wave and I am the rock and I am flow and I am stuck and I am twisted and I am inside out and I am 2015 and I am 2016 and I am every year and I am you and I am spirit and I am real and I am found and I am alive and I am truth and I am light and I am darkness and I am lies and I am insignificant and I am missing and I am these words and I am the space between and I am joy and I am this moment and I am this moment and I am this moment.
‘Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.’ Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird.
‘If one woman told the truth about her life, the world would split open’ Muriel Rukeyser.
Throw me to the sky 
I have enjoyed reading your small stones, Shanee. Some beautiful captured moments and images. I too am a counsellor – I have been endeavouring to write small stones as part of my “mindfulness” practice over the last year. I love your Muriel Rukeyser quote, thank you….
Thanks for reading…and for your comment. I am really enjoying this new mindfulness process and hope I continue when January is up, well hope to make it to the end of January first! Your blog looks lovely too – love the combination of text and textiles.
Hi Shanee,
I really like your small stones. So full but so succinct. Hope all is well with you in Christchurch – it must have everyone on edge. 🙂
Hi Louise, thanks so much for your kind comments, we are doing ok here so far…amazing what you can get used to…kind of!
Hi Shanee from a fellow student in one of Janet Conner’s Plug-In classes. I enjoy–and appreciate–your “Small Stone” moments. Love “Throw Me to the Sky.” Forever mindful.
Thanks for visiting Margaret! I really enjoy your blog too and am looking forward to reading the novels SOON!
Love the one woman and world splitting open quote & use it myself. Glad to get to know you thru Janet and mandala; You can find me at http://www.napkinwriter.wordpress.com — I have just completed one year of blogging — and it’s been a delight to me and a good writing practice.
I don’t prepare — I just let the stories that want to be told or the inspirations I feel from other people’s work guide me and I sit down and write.
I ALREADY LOVE YOUR WORDS. Keep at it.
Hi Napkin writer, congrats on getting to a year, I am excited at getting to 10 posts! And thanks for your encouragement, look forward to checking out your blog too.
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