E is for Everyday
Everyday, humdrum, quotidian. It’s where the story starts. It’s the ordinary world before Rumpelstiltskin comes along with his call to adventure.
Most stories don’t spend very much time at this stage of the story; it’s just the jumping-off point. The truth is, it takes the protagonist a long time to live into this part of the story, to acquire the latent strengths that end up saving her life.
It’s always the forgotten talisman in the pocket that ends up defeating the trickster. Or the kindness to insects that bring their help to sort out the grain piles (an impossible task). Even Dorothy found out that you have with you what you need all along.
F is for Forgiveness
The theme of forgiveness, specifically self-forgiveness keeps repeating itself. I suppose it’s unavoidable when you’re writing a memoir. Today, I must forgive myself for posting my “E is for” post one day late.
Yesterday, I told my mastermind group that I had to forgive myself for not having the skill I needed to extricate myself more quickly from a bad situation in the past. I do forgive myself. I did the best I could with the skills I had at the time.
The day before that, an email from a writing support group suggested I try consulting a Deva Card. I went to the site, entered my intention to make gentle, steady progress on my memoir while maintaining my other commitments. I shuffled the cards and pulled the card for Forgiveness.
Now I remember writing a blog post about this before. Self-forgiveness is a talisman I’m holding in my pocket. Isn’t it funny that I had with me what I needed all along?
