Category: just texts

Writing practice

Confusion

Photo by Anni Roenkae on Pexels.com

Everybody knows 63 precedes 64. This makes sense and does not mean much. And then they come to me this week via email from The Book of Changes, the I’Ching, which I have not read – yet – and bring up gates 63 and 64 in my head. 63 — The Gate of Doubt. After Completion. And then 64 — The Gate of Confusion. Before Completion. Now I am confused. 63 precedes 64; After completion precedes Before completion. Where did this begin? Where did I begin? In 63, two Saturns ago. Is that coincidence? No such thing. 58 years of reliable confusion. But I am getting ahead of myself. Doubt after completion is gate 63. I am sensing the past: did I do right? With each beginning a completion? I doubt it. In the now, I am mapping our future in a pile of diapositive slides. I doubt the blur of colors and shades. Glimpses ring through inconsistently. Tomorrow and yesterday dance beautifully, and the music is playing just now. And now, I am accepting to make sense of the past, the gift of gate 64. I am consistently confused, and yesterday and tomorrow dance perfectly. Infinite and null beginnings. I doubt this is the end. In all this con-fusing mystery is the beginning.

Time to catch up with my weekly writing course. This is week 6, and the year has fewer than 46 weeks left.

There is a time

There is a time for everything
A time for writing 
#poetry 
A time for reading texts about 
#UkraineUnderAttack 
A time of people standing up 
#Ukraine 
A time of an empire falling 
#Russia 
A time of #suffering 
A time of #freedom

You guessed it. The hashtags. I wrote this for Twitter first. A couple of times, I have done it the other way ’round: Blog first, Twitter later.

Finding

2022-01-23 SD Writing / Creativity Group

It was a beautiful afternoon in the park, writing and sharing with wonderful people. [I still can’t grasp – fully – that I can do this in January.] The prompt was a poem with the title Funeral. The lyrical I asked for a celebration of the happiness and fulfillment achieved.
And I still have not read up on Tarot.

If you have the time and energy to read more of these texts you find them in chronological order on this website. Let me know what you associate with them, what you like, what you dislike, what you read in them, how they make you feel …