For several years, while writing my usual medieval mysteries I've also been working on a fantasy. Friends are quiet when I talk about the latter, clearly thinking I'll never complete it. But I will. I will. It's the story that grows & deepens in my dreams & meditations. The one that haunts me.

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As fearful, anxious, insecure, and wounded people we are tempted constantly to grab a little bit of power that the world around us offers... here and there, now and then. These bits of power make us little puppets jerked up and down on strings until we are dead. henrinouwen.org/meditations/...

Power Through Powerlessness - Henri Nouwen

The movement from power through strength to power through powerlessness is our call. As fearful, anxious, insecure, and wounded people

Quite taken with this Index of Afflictions from Oliver Burkman's Meditations for Mortals (Bodley Head, 2024). Very simple and reader-focused - what ails you? Here are some useful chapters for that. I'd like it more if it had page spans for the whole chapter. #IndexSky

From Oliver Burkeman's Meditations for Mortals. Stop trying to do it all. Put the burden down. Yes you.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 6:52 It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.

two highly trained lethal martial artists. face one another in close combat hard sparring, with a rubber gun in play committed to serious daily practice. with hours daily spent alone in training & meditations... "i shot you!" "nah ah !! it barely nicked my vest!" 🤦‍♀️🔫😆🤦‍♀️😆🔫🤦‍♀️😆🔫🤦‍♀️😆🔫

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