Writing Wings For You

Marie Lukasik Wallace ~ # I LIVE Poetry – I'm passionate about life and writing and all things creative and poetic!


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Respectful Advice Needed – What to Do for an Elusive Muse

So, my writing friends.  I’m sure you’ve been in this situation before, so I will explain my dilemma, and you tell me what works for you.  Okay?    Over the summer, I fell in love with blogging and found more content than I could possibly get on a blog.  My heart was on a high, my creativity flourished, my writing world was filled with wonder.  And then…reality hit and I had to go back to school.  I became absorbed in that world because that’s what my students deserved.  However, any writer/artist knows, that when your world is filled with something else, especially work, the muse becomes elusive….creativity sometimes is dried up.

My New Year’s goal was just get bottom in seat.  Because at least when I got my bottom in the seat something would happen.   But hmmm…not so good.  I feel like one of those capsules my little first graders get that are holding a mystery shrunken creature just waiting for some great water to pour on top and reveal what I am.

You can be my water!

YOUR TURN:  When you find yourself stuck, what do you write about?   How do you get your creative juices flowing?  Do you go to a book and answer random questions?   Do you start random challenges?

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IF YOU AND I HAD COFFEE, WHAT WOULD YOU TELL ME?

What’s your formula?  I’m all ears.

Happy Sunday my friends.  Marie

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Endorsing a Writer/Blogging Friend

A great blogging friend and supporter of writers is published!

Here’s to people’s dreams coming true!   Here’s an excerpt of his book:

In EVERLASTING CRONIES you will enjoy a heart-warming, coming of age story about a trio of racially diverse boys who experience joy, loss, conflict, and redemption during the rural Louisiana summer of 1949. There is beauty, romance, and the racial animosity of the Deep South during that pivotal period. Ample local color, the ghost of the old mule jail, a snake dance, and a traditional Southern funeral, punctuate the drama that teaches the boys profitable life-lessons about faith, trust, loyalty and betrayal. This one unforgettable summer moves this threesome to the cusp of manhood and cements an enduring friendship.

Here’s a link: get to Amazon to get it.

Cheers to many more writing adventures & success for everyone.

Happy days.   Marie


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One Word – Gratitude

Every year I choose one word to guide me throughout the year.  It’s easier to remember one word than a slew of resolutions that I will probably break.  With age, comes wisdom.   Don’t get me wrong, I still set goals in each of the categories, family, career, health, etc., but the one word gives me a more centralized focus.  I’m more apt to make my goals if I am specific, clear and realistic.  I like moving forward; and this provides the perfect opportunity for me.

My word this year is GRATITUDE.  I have been given so much.  I must never forget that I have been blessed beyond measure, and that when something doesn’t go well, it’s a minor bump.

In my classroom, we have two days a week where we pick a word to focus on for the day.  What’s nice about this is that it does keep goals clear for the kids.  They are only 7, but they can remember words like respect and responsible and caring and outstanding.  What if everything I did in my day was OUTSTANDING?  Can you imagine the day you would have?

I passed by a quote the other day, I wish I would have written it down or gotten the author’s name, but it was something like this:   Live as if everything is rigged in your favor.  How positive is that?

And now, if every day is lived in pure Gratitude, anything new that I receive will be like frosting, right?

Happy New Year my dear friends, and may your day be filled with much joy and exciting adventures!

Namaste,

Marie


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I Live Poetry in the Winter Wonderland

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Snowflake lace

captured on my tongue

Snow blankets covering

the countryside with its loveliness

Sparkly jewels glittering with the sun

I can see why they call it

Winter “WONDER” land

because it creates magic

wherever it goes.

I live poetry in the Winter Wonderland.


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Collaboration – Joy

I wrote a post this morning  on How Simple it is to Choose Joy.  HERE

And then as I sat thinking about others who are celebrating different holidays and acts of joy this season, I thought, I would love to know WHAT IS YOUR JOY?

Please let me know.  I’d love to celebrate you…your families…your traditions…your happiness.  If you want to write your comment as a poem, then do!  You know me, I LOVE WORDS!

I will keep the post open until the New Year.  (I’ll do a new collaboration then.)   Each of you will get your very own color and a link back to your blog.

I can hardly wait to read them!  Your comments combined will make a lovely poem.

MY JOY is…

Have a most lovely week my dear friends.

Namaste, Mariejoy


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What I’ve Learned – How simple it is to CHOOSE JOY

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On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings in our first grade community circle, we choose one positive word for the day to be all day.  I do this because it used to be what we did in January as our New Year resolution. It was a simple thing for first graders to remember, one word versus a phrase.   Frankly, it’s easy for all of us to remember one word.   We do an art project with it wherein we tear little scrap papers and make rainbow letters on a 3×5 card.   Then, we hang it in our cubbies.   Like anything that remains in one place, sometimes it’s forgotten.

So last year, I implemented positive words for Tuesday because they were easy to remember how to be that word all day long.  Sometimes we write them on our desk.  Then Wednesday, we would have our Plus one day.  We would be our word for Tuesday and then another positive word for Wednesday.  (It’s always nice to have a goal to look forward to.)

What I learned, just holding the word “Joy” in my head all day, changes my thinking.  When I change my thinking, I change my energy level.  Holding this positive energy level allows those things that might otherwise change my day to roll off my back and not exist or change form.  I’m happier….the kids are happier.

We have a phrase posted in our room that says, “Be kind in all you say and do and acts of kindness follow you.”   And now we interchange that word.  Be respectful in all you say and do and acts of respect follow you.     Be JOY-FULL in all you say and do and acts of JOY follow you.

Try it out!   You will be surprised at the acts of joy that follow you.

Merry Christmas my dear friends or happiness and joy in whatever holiday season you may be celebrating, even if it’s the holiday of you.

Namaste,  Marie  :0)


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nice to finally have a name for my dancing style.

A dear blogging friend found this kind
of dancing. It’s a way to dance with
much soul joy! Thanks.

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i believe i am qualified to teach a master class in this.

who’s in?

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The Messenger

tulip

The Messenger

Look out across

the massive field of

red bulbous tulips,

the same two foot tall structures

row after row.

And you,

lone tulip,

head held

one blossom

higher than

the others.

You,

face tilted

heavenward,

soaking in

God’s secret messages,

and piping them

to the earth.

You,

His messenger,

Remember this

When the sun

beats upon

your tiny shoulders

and you grow

weary of

it’s weight,

may you

find

the strength

to last

a little longer,

for the world needs your healing power.


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Daddy – Please Re-Remember

daddy talking with hands

Maybe tomorrow

My daddy

You can somehow

Re-remember

How to form words

And you can tell

Me your stories again.

#fieryverse


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December – It’s About Joy & a Humanity Challenge

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I’m not usually much of a soap box person…but in this season of love and joy, I’m going to challenge you to push past the word “tolerance.”   It is a stage and a step…I get that.  But to tolerate me is to put up with me…it’s inactive.  It doesn’t require another person to take action…what would happen if you looked at me and accepted me faults and all…and a bit quirky…and then what if you could find something to appreciate about me?  And maybe after that, what if you could see in me what God sees in me and hit Namaste kind of love?

Just sayin’….what if?   If we all tried that even in our inner circles, wouldn’t the world be a little closer to peace?   Just something to ponder…