Dec 14, 2016
NEWS
A slow start to the campaign and I am not discouraged. Most of the lack of movement is that I’ve been doing the writing, but not as much marketing. I’m in a choir and preparing for an evening of tarot readings. December is a busy month.
Actually, that’s just this week which means that after this weekend, guess who’s getting my full attention. You, my dears, and Master Cat.
To help speed things along in terms of getting you out of the weeds of my research and into the first draft trenches, the notes and quotes posted one "portion" at a time prior to last week are going to be grouped together (without creating too long and boring a stream of notes and quotes, I promise).
Step Two: "Research"; UNTIL the cats starts talking, Recognition / Contending / Analysis / Time
Before you read these you should know that I might be in love with psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner. And proceed:
It’s “critical to integrate new information in a manner that does not violate who we are. By taking away our natural voice, we leave ourselves without a sense of gravity to balance us as we navigate countless obstacles along our way.” Josh Waitzkin
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.” Andre Lorde
“Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.” Helene Cixous
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The ‘gift’ that we often talk about is your ability to learn, and grow, and adapt. And that’s a gift we all are born with.” Jeff Goins
“Coming and going matter far more than what happens in the middle … humans remember the transitions, because it’s the moments of change and possibility and trepidation that light us up.” Seth Godin
“In the course of creative endeavors, artist and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding. This process is demanding; it calls upon all the inner resources of the individual - active memory, openness to experience, creative intensity, and emotional courage. It demands self-knowledge in a the use of expansion of one’s talents.” Vera John-Steiner, psycholinguist
“Among the invisible tools of creative individuals is their ability to hold on to specific texture of their past. Their skill is akin to that of a rural family who lives through the winter on food stored in their root cellar … The creative use of one’s past, however, requires a memory that is both powerful and selective.” Vera John-Steiner, psycholinguist
“ … memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” Oliver Sacks
Mozart’s “bag of memories"
Old maxim: Know the rules so well, you can break them effectively.
Life is like chess; you learn the rules, you learn the strategies, and then you go to town doing your thing.
Research by the USC Mind & Society Center showed that scheduling goals more than 90 days out increased the level of procrastination on the part of the goal-setters