Dear Journal-A poem

We have so much available to us in the technology age. Two forms of writing I will never give up on are snail mail and journaling. There is nothing like a good venting session in your journal when there is no human ear around to listen or sending/receiving mail.

Here is a poem I wrote in and to my journal today:

Dear Journal,
I will not abandon you!
You have been too kind to me
Although technology pushes us further and further away from you
With its fancy blogs and brighlty hued emagazines
it is you I started with
I will always come back to you
From the kiddie loced variety to teh new adult leather bound
I carry you with me
Legal pads, Moleskines, and girrafe printed covers
Pink lined pages and dated headers
I wrote my goals, dreams, ambitions, recipes
Put on your pages clippings from magazines
Hashed it all out each time a boy disappointed me
Funny muses
Ideas for my next tattoo and
Ramblings about motherhood
Put you down-I never would
Dear Journal
My companino for eternity

Thanks Sarah Mae

I read for many reasons. I must admit that my favorite books are those that call us to action! Self help and motivation is the genre I was drawn to as a writer due to my love of reading those books. I love the feelings that they invoke. My latest ebook purchase is 31Days to Clean by Sarah Mae. I follow her blog on here.

I actually snagged a free copy of chapter 7 this week- which compelled me to clean out my pantry! Here's the proof:

So I'm sending a great BIG shout out to Sarah Mae

 THANK YOU

Finding It

Currently I am reading Valeri Bertinelli's "Finding It" which is an awesome read. It's all about the "maintenance" phase of life after a major transition. We all go through the maintenance period. Woven throughout this book are glimpses of her journey to find and connect spiritually to a higher power...namely God. She seeks for the "religous feeling" only ever felt once before when eating her grandma's soup.

Here's a peek into what maintenance is according to VB "Unlike a diet, with its simle formula of eating fewer calories and getting more exercise, maintenance isn't as easily defined. Most people, including me, understand it to mean not regaining the weight that we had lost, but maybe not everyone knows that it also means that we have to keep working with change."

I agree.

GET THIS BOOK!