"Reverse Cowgirl (Strength card)"

Your personal Pink Moon ritual will stimulate health when it involves movement. Dancing, stretching, walking — it will send your hopes for vitality to the lunar swell, and what comes back is spring embodied, aliveness honored.

Grit, writing assignment (pay attention)

Subject is your choice.

"caregiving" (mixed media)

This is about writing itself as a kind of grit = the subject is what is challenging to you, forcing you to grow. What stymies you.

As you write, be explicit and specifically detailed. You're not trying to mystify yourself.

Assignment format:

a memory + a fantasy / a reality 

Example: A memory of being a parent + a fantasy of what that could be like / the current on-the-ground reality in that life category.

Goal: Use writing to discover what you're thinking.

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not unblogging this atm - it's not writing, it's writing-about-writing 

fascinating to watch her hit a plotline, shattering it on impact 

Grit, a novel (see recipe), current contents

Section 1 - Sobriety Games

ch 1 "Threshold Learning"

ch 2 "Just One"

ch 3 "Choking"

ch 4 "Reverse Cowgirl"

Section 2 Vegas

ch 5 "Dick Butter" (ripped down into 3 chapters / shattered)

ch 6 "Garbage Bags" (working title)

ch 7 "Huckleberry"

ch 8 "Sex Chair (Mid-Century Modern)"

Section 3 - Unknown Freeballing It - I don't have a wish. 

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Words can work magic. Or at least help you grit your way through a hard spell.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Not every interaction will leave you energized, but healthy relationships involve some form of exchange: support, laughter, learning or shared understanding. If you consistently walk away from someone feeling depleted, pause and reflect on what might need attention.

Writing is paying attention.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). To really serve someone well, you'll find out the person's preferences and give full attention to meeting their needs. This kind of detailed work is a rare gift to offer, so don't be surprised if it makes an impression far beyond what you were aiming for.

My mother on paper. Mid cerebral gorilla erotica. Welp 🤷🏻‍♀️

Section 1 - Sobriety Games

ch 1 "Threshold Learning"

ch 2 "Just One"

ch 3 "Choking"

ch 4 "Reverse Cowgirl"

Section 2 Vegas

ch 5 "Dick Butter" (draft 1)

wreck - neko case 

says God

try not to freak out - john shambles 

Grit, a novel

chapter 4, "Reverse Cowgirl"

 

There's wildness in the way our minds work, and that can be beautiful. But when it isn't, remember that the uncomfortable thoughts are common, especially on a day of a solar conjunction with Saturn and three lunar squares. Treat the negative thoughts like mental static. Don't build an identity around them. You don't need a pure mind to live well. You need a flexible one.

"word lent"

dry spell - kacey musgraves 

Grit, a novel

chapter 3, "Choking"

this is a graphic novel, the images (collages, photos, whatever) have to catch up

Grit, a novel

chapter 2, "Just One"

tracking by a date written

Grit, a novel

"It seems counterintuitive, but losing doesn't make a person a loser. Losing means you're in the game, and being in the game means you're winning at life, even though you may not be winning at the game in question." (epigraph)

chapter 1, "Threshold Learning"

the OG, Nocona vintage - "you'd have to feel really sure of yourself to wear those dumb boots" 

"wanna have his baby and stuff"