Wednesday’s What?
You see, my fine blog reader (and no doubt newsletter subscriber and perhaps Comfort Cafe member and book owner and coaching client – who knew all the ways you could be comforted by me) I find that I am not posting as often as I like because I believe – who knows how I got this strange idea – that my posts must make sense.
This is difficult because, let’s face, it, my mind rarely does that anymore. So I find myself flummoxed and unable to post.
Otherwise known as posting flummoxia. Painful. Keeps me up at night. So I had a little brain a storming moment in which the vision of…
a jambalaya, a comfort basket, a wiry fankle (a Scottish word that means a tangle or a state of confusion), a bit of this and tad of that could be a post a week
After all, Stop Making Sense was a great movie. (okay, maybe not great but…)
It is not that I mean my Wednesdays posts to be tangled or confusing but rather to be free to be um… mixed.
Enough making sense. Here goes. We will see. As we always do.
Fankle One – Maureen Murdock and The Heroine’s Journey
One thing you get at the Comfort Cafe is a monthly wisdomcast (may have to change that name, sounds a bit too cute), a conversation between me and someone wise. You get to ask them some questions, too. I know the Cafe is not for everybody so I thought I would share a bit of the wisdomcast with you – an edited excerpt!
Maureen’s book The Heroine’s Journey was a life changing one for me and it deserves to be revisited.
Enjoy! Maureen’s edited talk
Fankle Two – Hot Wax
Were you just saying to yourself the other day, “I wish I could learn encaustic painting but gosh darn, it seems too dangerous and hard?” Or maybe, like me, you took a class and promptly forgot everything you learned? Well, get out your wax and get ready to melt because the very wonderful Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch has written THE BEST BOOK – The Encaustic Workshop.
It’s simple, it’s lush, and it’s HOT. (okay, bad pun. Wiry fankle also allows for bad puns.)
Fankle Three – Self-Trust
That’s been our February topic at – yes I’m going to say it again – the Comfort Cafe – and two really good resources that have helped me write the Not-Quite-So-Daily-Dollops on the subject are Trusting Yourself by M.J. Ryan and Molly Gordon’s most recent blog post.
I also like this that I wrote today: Remembering, if only for a moment, that failure is just another label and the truth is you are an endlessly inventive perfectly marvelous creator.
Fankle Four- Weird Postcard
And that is your Wednesday fankle!
13 responses so far ↓
1 Joely Black Feb 18, 2009
Huzah for Jambalaya and Wiry Fankle!
I love, especially, self-trust. And the postcard.
Joely Black’s last blog post..This whole writing thing that I do
2 Emily Feb 18, 2009
I find that I am comforted to know that other people’s minds don’t always make sense (though, I prefer to think of my non-sense making mind as simply quirky
).
Emily’s last blog post..Winter
3 Dawn Feb 18, 2009
I love it! I often come to your site hoping to see a new blog post (no pressure!), so I’m glad you’re posting your fankle for all of us to see (and benefit from). I always follow your links, which inevitably lead to some wonderful treasures!
4 Jennifer Feb 18, 2009
It is comforting to know that your mind doesn’t have to work… at least it is for me at this juncture in life!
5 Wormy Feb 18, 2009
Wirly fankle’s rock – whoo hoo.
Besides, I love posting flummoxia
Wormy’s last blog post..Welcoming myself back.
6 Jennifer Feb 18, 2009
Thanks everyone for the comments, and thanks Dawn for saying you often come by the site… that made my heart sinf~
7 Dana Corey, Spicy Princess Feb 18, 2009
Great way to start off the morning! Without caffeine (I’m off it), wiry fankle is about all I can process till about 10am.
And the postcard? Loved the postcard!
Dana Corey, Spicy Princess’s last blog post..Once is Never Enough
8 cathy Feb 18, 2009
Wiry Fankle! My new favorite concept!
Have you heard how some Native Americans purposely include mistakes in their weavings in order to honor the Divine?
Have you heard about the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi — that life/beauty is imperfect and incomplete in its very nature?
These ideas bring me a lot of peace. Sometimes writing something that doesn’t “make sense” or have all of its elements tied together in a little bow allows for more honesty and light to shine through.
But — for this reader — your post made wonderful sense. And I loved the postcard.
9 carolyn, laughing yogini Feb 18, 2009
Ah Jenn,
Morning meditation notwithstanding, confusion reigns and seeking behavior perpetuates – with enthusiasm, of course.
You’re makin’ me feel right at home here: flummoxing about with wiry fankles and all….sure you’re not in MY living room?
10 Eveline Feb 18, 2009
Ahhh…here’s to wiry fankle! I have posting flummoxia because I somehow believe that postings must not only make sense, they must be meaningful and deep or something….and it’s a rare moment when I make sense and am deep!
Oh, and thanks for the postcard – can’t get the song “Peter Pumpkinhead came to town…” out of my head now…..
Eveline’s last blog post..For My Love
11 Margaret Feb 18, 2009
Neat–who’d have thought that ‘wiry fankle’ would become cool and hip and that it was OK to have one!
Love this, Jen.
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