{"id":6293,"date":"2014-04-04T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2014-04-04T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:07:51","slug":"something-worth-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2014\/04\/something-worth-writing.html","title":{"rendered":"Something Worth Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-prn1\/t1.0-9\/10176205_10152066509381336_671037151_n.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I saw this meme while perusing Facebook this morning and was puzzled by the question that accompanied it:\u00a0 &#8220;Which would you rather do?&#8221; The obvious answer was &#8220;Both.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 In my mind, the second informs the first. Most of what I have written about over the past 25 years has come from my direct experience or witnessing those of others. Like most wordsmiths, I am a keen observer of what is going on around me; an anthropologist of sorts. Add to it, the career path I had chosen as a therapist, and you have a winning combination.<\/p>\n<p>One of the occupational hazards of such a calling, is that quite often, I find myself in the midst of enjoying a moment, or bemoaning one and then thinking &#8220;How can I translate this so that readers can get value from it?&#8221; and further &#8220;How can I use it as\u00a0 teaching tool for clients and students?&#8221; I am finding that I may have ADD, since I am so easily distracted and pulled away from the present, and so, I beckon myself back to the here and now.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few months, my articles for this and other venues who welcome my musings and mental meanderings, have been fed by the death of a friend by suicide, the wedding of two beautiful women who I was honored to marry, my bout with shingles, the challenges of my nearly 12 year marriage and the growth that has taken place since being widowed 15 years ago, raising a boy child to manhood as a single mom, becoming a &#8216;hugmobster&#8217;; organizing a Valentines&#8217; Day weekend FREE hugs flash mob, addiction\/recovery, surrender, attracting abundance and living the life of my dreams and desires.<\/p>\n<p>As I enter into this day, I welcome the writing prompts that will nourish the next round~<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a title=\"Writer's Relief\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/writersrelief\" target=\"_blank\">Writer&#8217;s Relief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I saw this meme while perusing Facebook this morning and was puzzled by the question that accompanied it:\u00a0 &#8220;Which would you rather do?&#8221; The obvious answer was &#8220;Both.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 In my mind, the second informs the first. 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