Comments on: Very Personal Ads #133: doobie doo just filling something out

By: Mechaieh

Mechaieh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:32:21 +0000

My VPAs apparently require a safe room this week. They want a washitsu — one offering them super-pillowy quilts, plates of sushi and tempura, and a bottle of hazelnut sake. It seems my stucks have a LOT to say about the WTWCs as soon as I start trying to spell out the ways, and I’m feeling a bit ambushed-paralyzed-WAHHH-DON’T-WANNA (and yet also want-it-all and wanna-be-done-already) by all the options they’re whispering at me.

But at least they feel like they could be genuine guide-ropes out of the Big Mire of Meh. That is a net improvement.

Wishing all y’all a wonderful rest-of-the-week.

By: Being with the slow | my seed house

Being with the slow | my seed house — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:49:28 +0000

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By: One Creative Thing: Achievement and a New World Order

One Creative Thing: Achievement and a New World Order — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:33:57 +0000

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By: Beth Freeman

Beth Freeman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:33:06 +0000

I laughed and snorted about filling out forms! And then, I filled out some forms :D how perfect!

WHAT I WANT: To start doing VPAs more systematically – and many forms of journal-ness.
I currently write a lot! In paper journal, on electric journal, in idea-book, in my head. Stone-skippings after Shiva Nata.
And they get lost, and I don’t remember writing. And while I know it’s the process, really… maybe a formwork would help me remember more? AND i want to keep working in Journals – how can I get them to the book of me?
And sometimes, if I could have the bravery to blog some of the smartness? I could table this ask until I have a monster convo though.
WAYS THIS COULD WORK:
I could get VERY systematic about taking pics of journal and post to Evernote – which has a writing-search function… Online Book-o-me! (secret hidden wish: an iPod Touch 4+ or very old iPhone, so I can post via wi-fi, super-easily.)
I could REVUE the writing, pull out essences and small quotes, and write those on BookaMe pages. As part of end-of-day writings?
I could accept that things will be scattered – AND get tape-bookmark things and write tiny topics on them to put in the journals… ooo!
PLAY WITH: There are many right ways. Finding the essence.

I WANT: oh dear, I had resigned myself to no floating playground. and when genius idea struck… first thing I thought was, oh yay! maybe now I can afford Floop! So maybe I wasn’t resigned.
WAYS THIS COULD WORK:
I could implement idea easily, rather then scanner-flit away as I already feel happening.
I could do the easy-for-me-internet parts, THEN go offline and talk/post fliers about it. [haha I just took a 3-hour break from the VPA and DID IT. Ahhh!]
Let’s see!
PLAY WITH: Trust. What needs to happen will happen. Floop or no floop, genius idea un-flop or flop.
Sharing! check it out! http://fantheember.com/love/

Hooray, magic!

By: Fruit Maven

Fruit Maven — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:24:14 +0000

I have the desire to be very famous for fruit (like the Martha Stewart of fruit but without the scandal and the bitchiness or better-than-you-ness) while at the same time have the desire to just do something very small and minimal and basic. I am also going to choose to believe this are not contradictory. I can want what I want. So be it.

The above declaration is kind of my VPA for the week or the year or for my life.

By: Sarah T

Sarah T — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:23:15 +0000

Seagirl, I was also totally and completely not a runner for a long time and then later I was one. For me, it turned out that the part I didn’t like was the one where it felt physically hard: huffing, puffing, wondering if I could do it, feeling tired after. And then one day I woke up and realized that I never had to run far enough or fast enough to feel that way. I mean, lions practically never chase me! That permission suddenly made it enjoyable for me. (Also, if you run in the morning, there’s this “you are one of us” nod that early-morning runners give each other, and I like it ridiculously much.)

VPA for this week: Practice

I have a religious practice that I adore but I haven’t been engaging in a formal way for a while.

Because this practice is also connected with some very public pieces of my identity, my monsters have some ideas about what kind of a practice I really ought to have to avoid being a faker. I am pretty sure that my outward-facing work will be fractally fed by anything that feeds and supports me, so I would like to find a way of engaging in this practice that feels beautiful and supportive and lovely.

Ways this could work:
*I could come up with the qualities of the right practice for me right now
*I could make a safe room for practicing-me where she doesn’t have to worry about what outward-facing-me thinks or needs
*I could figure out who would be my ally in knowing that the perfect practice for me might have nothing to do with the kind of practice my tradition describes
*I could ask slightly future me about it.

I’ll play with:
*Commitment-free experiments
*Permission
*Being curious

By: Claire P

Claire P — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:20:16 +0000

@Kathleen, Conscuious say ‘who I am is who you see me to be. Grasshopper’….
#badstereotypes #hollywoodconfusion

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:39:07 +0000

@seagirl: Yay! I hope you love it! Trails are softer than asphalt so I think it’s good for feet and legs. p.s. I am the slowest runner ever and I often feel like a cheetah while I am running on trails – strong and powerful.

By: Kathleen Avins

Kathleen Avins — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:28:23 +0000

P.S. "Conscoius" = Conscious. Conscoius?! Who's that? :D

By: Kathleen Avins

Kathleen Avins — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:26:00 +0000

@Riv -- Mythical Cambridge = brilliant. Thanks for the reminder to seek the magic on my own home turf. What I want: I want the good, grounded, peaceful feeling I experienced last night to continue and expand throughout the week, to help me feel stronger and more secure when challenges arise. Ways this could work: Conscoius entry and exit! Absolutely. I'll play with: Remembering my magic words, which are also qualities, which are also my superpowers. I will breathe those magic words, and make a home for them in my body.