Writers:

Happy Mid-Winter!

Remember Writer’s Café is tonight at SawDust Coffee Co. in the North Bend outlet mall. 6 p.m.

Let’s get right to our prompt, ok?

We’re back at Week 10 tasks from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.

We’re looking at touchstones today.

Touchstones:  Make a quick list of things you love, happiness touchstones for you. River rocks worn smooth, willow trees, cornflowers, chicory, real Italian break, homemade vegetable soup, the Bo Deans’ music, black beans and rice, the smell of new mown grass, blue velvet (the cloth and the song), Aunt Minnie’s crumb pie…

Post this list where it can console you and remind you of your own personal touchstones. You may want to draw one of the items on your list – or acquire it. If you love blue velvet, get a remnant and use it as a runner on a sideboard or dresser, or tack it to the wall and mount images on it. Play a little.

That’s it for today.

We will finish the tasks of Week 10 during our next Work Session. We’ll be talking about the Awful Truth regarding our creative life. Setting a Bottom Line and Cherishing. Hope you all will join me – Feb. 26 at the North Bend Library Meeting Room at 6 p.m. Please RSVP. Bring supplies to be ready to write.

And now your moment of Writing Zen:

“How often – even before we began – have we declared a task impossible? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.” ~Piero Ferrucci