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  1. 1. Renew my spirituality
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    2 people
  2. 2. Lose 10 pounds
    3 entries
    6,328 people
  3. 3. Hike more
    6 entries . 30 cheers
    338 people
  4. 4. Keep my mind fluid and magical
    3 entries . 8 cheers
    6 people
  5. 5. live in a forest
    4 entries . 27 cheers
    74 people
  6. 6. do nanowrimo every year
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    9 people
  7. 7. stop dwelling on past negative events
    15 entries . 37 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. Learn to trust again, and trust wisely
    5 entries . 23 cheers
    195 people
  9. 9. stop giving my power away
    3 entries . 17 cheers
    5 people
  10. 10. Go back to college
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    955 people
  11. 11. open a coffee house
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    59 people
  12. 12. see walmart crash and burn
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    9 people
  13. 13. learn sumi-e
    4 entries . 10 cheers
    15 people
  14. 14. Open a bookstore
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    181 people
  15. 15. find a career that I enjoy
    1 entry . 16 cheers
    24 people
  16. 16. become a better writer
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    435 people
  17. 17. love myself more
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    683 people
  18. 18. Never stop learning
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    4,106 people
  19. 19. submit my writing for publication
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    38 people
  20. 20. Stop comparing myself to other people
    3 entries . 20 cheers
    726 people
  21. 21. not have children
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    47 people
  22. 22. read more Rumi
    3 team members . 2 entries . 7 cheers
    6 people
  23. 23. learn the edible and medicinal uses of plants
    2 team members . 15 entries . 8 cheers
    17 people
  24. 24. Join the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    3 people
  25. 25. write a novel and get it published
    1 entry . 16 cheers
    348 people
  26. 26. create a team of 43 crazy cat lovers
    26 team members . 1 entry . 2 cheers
    25 people
  27. 27. be more compassionate
    7 entries . 14 cheers
    223 people
  28. 28. be a succulent wild woman
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    96 people
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Renew my spirituality
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I’ve finally managed to set up an altar again. It’s only a small space on a shelf in the living room but it’s a start. Mostly I just stand there and light incense or a candle with prayerful intent. Sometimes I manage to do that and offer rosewater.

This is a big step from where I was even 3 months ago. I was still having problems praying three months ago. I still have some problems with it but fewer than I used to. I still cannot believe how Dad’s death rocked my spirituality like that. It was just like having the earth jerked out from under your feet and the sky replaced with nothingness, like reaching out spiritually accomplished nothing. It made me question a lot of things I never thought I’d question about being spiritual at all.

I am finally to the place where I get comfort from spiritual actions again. I’m finally to the place where my spirituality is invoking good feelings inside me once more. It has been and continues to be like toiling up a fearsome mountain but now I’m finally seeing that it does feel as rewarding as it used to.



grieve
My Father Passed in May

Really, that’s why I haven’t been around anywhere much. It hit me hard; it was almost totally unexpected.

I’ve accepted that he’s gone but I don’t want to think about it at all. So I guess I wonder if I’ve truly accepted it. I distract myself from thinking about it at every opportunity.



make more friends (read all 3 entries…)
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I just wanted to say here that I am extremely grateful and thankful for all of the people who have come into my life recently through NaNoWriMo and 43T. It makes me think that perhaps everything is not as harsh as it had once seemed for me.

I’m grateful to have met you all.

<3



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