I did something different today!

[linaewen]

I actually wrote a real letter today, using stationery and a pen. Go me!!! And I discovered an important thing -- it's not that hard to do, and I had just as much to say on paper as I do in a journal or an email! :-D I need to do this more often!

I'm really quite taken with the poem I found and posted yesterday (click here if you didn't read it by chance: Waning Strength. The poem does create a tiny bit of a guilt complex, I suppose, but that's good in my case. I'm trying to do better at balancing what I do in a day, so that a little bit of everything is covered, and no one or no thing is neglected. I still need work in that respect, but sometimes much of the effort in making a change is in realizing that a change needs to be made. Though one does have to get up and actually DO something sometimes! :-D

I'm going to get up now and go do something else on my list, but I haven't forgotten about this part of the poem:

The soul requires, needs, is nurtured by,
Those peaceful moments,
When the spark of creativity is given room to grow,
When love is something the heart is allowed to know,
When fun is a word well understood.

Hope you all get a chance -- or take a chance -- to seek a peaceful moment today!

Comments

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Wow! Do they still make paper?

*chuckles* Go you, indeed! ((((Lin))))

[estellye.livejournal.com]

LOL, I may have just as much to say with pen and paper, but I doubt anyone could read it.

I am sure the recipient of your letter will be very happy to get it!

I have been thinking about that poem since I read your post earlier today, too. I really am glad you found it.

[(Anonymous)]

Good for you!! Writing letters is indeed a dying art, but not lost, not yet.

And thank you for finding and posting that poem... I wonder how well acquainted I am, truly, with fun... Methinks not well enough... my world has been gobbled up by trying to find peace and balance in the physical aspect, such that there's not been much time or perhaps more accurately not much thought for much of anything else. Perhaps I need to start balancing better and believe that the physical aspect truly will take care of itself with all the habits I've tried to establish... but I waver, for I know that even now it is oh so easy to slip into old ways. sigh... thank you for the lovely poem. It's message is clear and well stated.

I hope you had some fun and peaceful moments today.

Love, Ladyhawk Baggins

[accioboytoy.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful talking with you tonight, honey - even if DH was a tad confused about exactly WHO called....=P

The soul requires, needs, is nurtured by,
Those peaceful moments,
When the spark of creativity is given room to grow,
When love is something the heart is allowed to know,
When fun is a word well understood.

Words to live by.

[maidoforange.livejournal.com]

That is indeed a wonderful and wise poem as you are wonderful and wise, ((((Lin))). Writing a real letter on stationary can be fun.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I had missed this the first time around - thank you for linking back to it, so I could give it a read. I see what you mean by reference to "teeny guilt" but it's a good reminder, an expansion on the timeworn "Don't forget to stop and smell the roses" with more of the long-term consequences if you don't.

You wrote a real letter! Go you! I've so neglected doing that - used to do it all the time, and now my collection of stationery lays in its box year after year. I would like to blame it on computers, but I know when I stopped writing was when I had kids and so many "leisure" things that enriched relationships went out the window... They're getting older now, time to pick some of those tools back up. Thanks for the though-provoking posts ((((Lin))))

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

The peaceful moment I long for on this rainy day is to crawl back in bed with my heated mattress pad and "veg" in front of the TV. It would be terribly unproductive, of course, but still peaceful. :-)

((((huggling you)))))