I am a Writer!

I am taking a writing class this semester at the Loft Literary Center. It is wonderful. I have a sweet little red head teacher, who is beautiful and quiet and deep. She looks like a Celtic Goddess. She is leads us to the pool of the written word, encourages us to dip our toes in the pool and maybe even jump in.

It is refreshing and scary and exciting.

In doing my personal work in the Akashic Records I was told that I needed to embrace the fact that I was a writer. To say it, to think it, and to breathe it. I am a writer. This had never occured to me before! OK, maybe in the fantasies where I am on Oprah discussing my book or opening checks for free lance magazine articles, but really, I hadn't owned it yet.

Never mind that I won a little scholarship for writing in college, or that I had filled about 28 journals in the last 5 years (I write big, but not that big!) or have 2 blogs. I went around for about a week in wonder saying "I am a writer!" I told one of my best friends and she said "And I am a photographer!" (which is true). "No!" I said, "you don't get it! I am a writer!" She said, "Um, yeah? I kinda figured that out in India when you had read 7 books to my 1 and in the amount of time it took me to write 2 pages you had written 15."

Well then. But it is still new and scary and exciting and I still haven't totally claimed it yet. Just last night someone asked me what I did and I said, I am a mommy. I am a healer. I got that stuff down pat. Later I drove away and thought...ooohhh wait a minute. I am a writer! And an artist and a jewelry designer and a muse and a multi Goddess and oh my......

Maybe there is something you are not claiming either. Maybe everyone goes nuts for your cakes and scones and your are hesitant to make some business cards with Patty's Party Pastries on them. Your voice might be itching to sing in a choir or a jazz group, or perhaps there are poems that need to be acted out, danced and screamed from your very being. It could be anything and I am going to put money on it because everyone is born with an amazing and unique talent that no one else has.

So I am thinking, maybe we can write a new chapter for ourselves, you and I.....