Dina Zaman just sent me this link to a href="http://www.kerismith.com/WishJarTales/womenwriters.htm"an inspiring piece on writer/illustrator Keri Smith's blog/a.br /br /Smith talks about how at times when she feels low, she finds herself drawn to inspiring books, mainly biographies :br /blockquote style="font-style: italic;"...that speak of survival, triumph over adversity, and the need to create through all else. /blockquote She mentions the journals of women writers including May Sarton, Annie Dillard, Natalie Goldberg, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou and Colette, and asks herself :br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"How did these women find the constant courage and confidence to believe in themselves? /span/blockquoteShe believes the answer lies in the many similarities they share, and draws up a list that I think should be useful to the rest of us :br /ulli span style="font-style: italic;"All possess a obvious passion for nature, a connection with something greater than themselves, many of them connect this with memories of childhood. Several bought houses in the country to encourage this./span/lili style="font-style: italic;" There is a deliberate connection to other artists/writers/creators, a sharing of ideas, or a need to be coinspired by someone who is also creating. Creative gatherings, dinners, support groups, cafe meetings, letter writing, afternoon teas./lili style="font-style: italic;" They all seem somewhat “comfortable” with solitude and have a need or at least the ability to spend quality time alone. /lili style="font-style: italic;" There is an capacity for self motivation, all find various ways to shift perception get a fresh perspective on the world and their lives. Inspiring walks, travel to foreign lands, learning new skills, reading, cooking, exploring, /lili style="font-style: italic;" All experience pain, they choose to feel it intensely. They also move triumphantly beyond it creating a well of strength from which they draw from./lili style="font-style: italic;" They possess the ability to see magic in the ordinary, the gift of mindfulness./lili style="font-style: italic;" All have moments of gratefulness and compassion./lili style="font-style: italic;" They all do something decadent to pamper themselves regularly. May Sarton bought fresh flowers for herself every week! That nourishment theme again.br //li/uldiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-4504983880258850700?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div
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