I did write yesterday.
I did make my minimum and I also used writing that I had done before to make that minimum…  I don’t feel like I cheated but I’m aware that writing three pages from scratch each day is truly going to require me to lower my standards… one of my favorite writing stories is about doing just that.  Poet and translator Robert Bly interviewed poet William Stafford after his year of writing a poem a day. Bly asked Stafford, "How did you do it?"  And Stafford replied, "I lowered my standards."

I am reading my first ever Wayne Dyer book, The Power of Intention.  I am deeply and utterly not a fan of many new age ideas and I have been interested in the idea of intention for many years, starting when I wrote The Woman’s Retreat Book.  I keep thinking, as I read Dyer, that he is using new ways i.e. intention to talk about aligning with God’s will- perhaps using better, more precise language? 

Part of the meditation process we did in the workshop this past weekend was to become each of the Dakinis and then see ourselves- our ordinary self- in front of the Dakini and ask for a phrase to remember the transformation from obstructed emotion to wisdom.  One phrase in particular keeps running through my mind: Bloom, you have already merged.  The idea being I am already part of everything, one with everything (just like you and all living creatures) and so I don’t need to get anything or do anything so why not bloom?  Another phrase that I learned is effortless ambition. 

Off to coach and teach Surfing the Edge tele-retreat and write my three pages…