Posted on May 4, 2010 - by Joanna
Light Show
Remembering how we used to watch the fire and tell stories… and realising how we now sit and watch ‘the box’ instead, hoping for light, images, stories, warmth
Posted on March 7, 2010 - by Joanna
Writing for the Heart
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart ~ Wordsworth
Perhaps writing from the heart is a familiar idea. Dipping further inside, letting go of the inner critic to allow ourselves to share the deepest felt, heart felt words of the lines of our lives.
Perhaps sometimes we write in order to connect with another human heart. To find the words to comfort, to connect, to wake someone up.
But what if writing – making the commitment to write what we see, hear and feel, to be conscious of our treasures, to learn to listen and then share the wild pulsating music that lives inside us – what if that turned out to be good for our hearts?
A way to let go of our heavy hearts, a way to stop being half-hearted, a way to start feeling strong-hearted, whole-hearted…
Wouldn’t that be something to write home about? 
Posted on April 27, 2010 - by Joanna
Stories Too Heavy to Carry
Thoughts on times when stories get too heavy to carry, and how we can work in stories that lighten the load and gladen the heart.
Posted on April 24, 2010 - by Joanna
Fantasy is a Necessary Ingredient
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities – Dr Seuss
Posted on March 24, 2010 - by Joanna
Love Story
A short, very short two sentence story about love, and ripple effects, and flowers on Mother’s Day.
Posted on March 12, 2010 - by Joanna
Not Writing Poetry
The label ‘poetry’ puts so many of us off – what would happen if we reclaimed the act and just started writing poems that moved us, that changed things?
Posted on March 9, 2010 - by Joanna
Not Stone Monuments
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others – Pericles
Posted on March 7, 2010 - by Joanna
Lines of our Lives
How trees hold their stories in loops, not straight lines.
What can we learn from the way that trees tell their stories?
Posted on March 5, 2010 - by Joanna
How to Flick the Creativity Switch
It’s all too easy to hold on to the belief that you’re not creative. Here’s how I switched my creativity switch “on” and kept it there.
Posted on March 1, 2010 - by Joanna
Journey Into the Unknown
We can make more sense of journeys out of our comfort zone if we journal about them as we go. This audio slideshow is a way of using photography and sound to capture the journey.
Fragments
Love Story
A short, very short two sentence story about love, and ripple effects, and flowers on Mother’s Day.
Journaling
Shifting Perspectives on Time
Different ways to use your journal to get a better handle on time, and to shift your perspective on the passage of time.
Journaling
The Wonder of the Everyday
How journaling can help us live life as though everything is a miracle
Photo-Writing
10 Writing Reasons to Take More Photographs
Exploring the ways that taking photos can add an additional dimension to your writing life, and help your words to flow.
Photo-Writing
The Eyes of the Horse: Audio Slideshow
Poetry on the theme of remembrance. Captured in an audio slideshow with photos of the Robert the Bruce statue at Bannockburn battlefield.
Poems
Not Writing Poetry
The label ‘poetry’ puts so many of us off – what would happen if we reclaimed the act and just started writing poems that moved us, that changed things?
Poems
Let Me Be a Cafe Writer
Poetry inspired by those times when we sit and write in cafes, watching the world go by, falling into its familiar sounds and rhythms.
Quotes
Fantasy is a Necessary Ingredient
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities – Dr Seuss
Quotes
Not Stone Monuments
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others – Pericles
Thoughts
Light Show
Remembering how we used to watch the fire and tell stories… and realising how we now sit and watch ‘the box’ instead, hoping for light, images, stories, warmth
Thoughts
Stories Too Heavy to Carry
Thoughts on times when stories get too heavy to carry, and how we can work in stories that lighten the load and gladen the heart.
