[MD] Labels and Ostracisms

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Marsha,

It's funny you mention the kind of journal you used because that's the kind I've started with as well - the black and white marbled composition book.  Lu handed it to me and told me to start writing three pages a day but I wasn't very faithful about it til I actually started reading.  Now I'm addicted.  I see a strong resemblance to a meditative practice in it.

I too, am very glad I started the practice.

Take care,

John

On Nov 27, 2011, at 12:14 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

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> On Nov 26, 2011, at 3:43 PM, John Carl wrote:
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>> My wife is reading a book, as her morning devotional,  and she's liking it
>> a lot and she keeps telling me I'd like it a lot too. So she's talked me
>> into it. So far, I've liked it a lot.    It talks about creativity and the
>> fact that man is a creation himself, an efficient ordering of good stuff,
>> in a good way, indicates that creativity itself is God.    It's called,
>> "The Artist's Way" and its by Julia Cameron, who is now a teacher and has
>> been a successful screen writer.  Right off, the introduction grabbed me
>> and hooked into discussions of the utility of theism, which have arisen
>> before:
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> Hi John,
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> I know this book.  It was the "The Artist's Way" that started me journaling every day.  I used those black & white, marbled, student, composition books and wrote, at the very least, three pages per day.  After twelve years and within a year after my husband died, I had a ritual and burned them all in the barbecue.  When I started journaling there were a few days where there were three pages of a single word.  But usually they were filled with "stuff": the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful - stories, letters, poems, rants and addressing the good and the bad of a thorny problem, & joy - stuff.  I don't really remember more than the journaling exercise, but along with meditation, I am very happy I started such a practice.  
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