Inventory

Once again, I am shifting gears with my work without having made any plans to do so before now...it is simply happening in its own way and I feel like I'm just along for the ride.  My focus for many weeks has been on creating pages and writing, and seemingly out of nowhere late Monday afternoon, I decided it was time to take a more definitive inventory of everything created so far.  The past two days have been spent scanning and photographing everything, sizing it correctly and printing everything out.  I now have a stack of 118 potential book pages sitting neatly on my desk and I am going to try my best to leave them alone until next week.  I have been buried so deep in this work I think it will be better to step out of the zone for a little while so I can return to everything with fresh eyes.

I have already started a list of other topics I want to cover and stories I want to tell, and even though I do not think I have a great number of pages still to write and create in terms of quantity, I do believe I have much more to write in terms of quality and depth.  The topics currently on my list of things to write about:  Disappointment, Challenges, Loss, Failure.  Yikes...but I have already been able to see from the pages spewing out from my printer that these subjects are in need of some serious attention if this is to be a well-balanced book that isn't afraid to swim in murky waters.  I want this book to be insightful, inspiring and uplifting not just because it floats along that beautiful silver lining that exists in every dark cloud, but because it goes directly to the heart of those dark clouds and turns them inside out.

"Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day."
~Rubaiyat of Rumi

Comments

[i i eee]

Just stumbled upon your blog....

You are amazing! I can't wait to get paid to buy something! :)

[rowena]

I spent a little time looking around trying to glean an understanding of your book, and I've seen just enough to think it looks really great.

And I agree, it is important to face those darker things. When you are surfing the bright crest of the wave, it is kind of hard to remember the trough of fear or depression or loss at the bottom... but when you are in that well, the bright stuff seems so far off and so unreachable. Sometimes we need to be able to see a way out, as well as validating the dark times that we go through-- because they are valuable, too.

Keep it up, can't wait to see it.

[Lisa]

If this book is a true reflection of yourself then it will be "insightful, inspiring and uplifting..."

[melba]

I am so excited for your book!
Keep going!

[melanie]

now that is a book I can't wait to read! looks amazing :)

[linni]

Yayy!!! So excited to get my own copy in my hands...yummie!!!
Don't think to much about it..just let it flow from your heart....then all will be good!!!! xx

[indigene]

Wow! The pages look so luscious! The color maze throughout the photo seem so soothing! I can't wait to order it! You are amazing!

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[melissa]

hope I get a sneak peek when I come to visit :) xoxo

[justin Davanzo]

so excited for your new book..can't wait!!!!

[michelle/tangled wings]

ooohhh...look at all those goodies!

[Shari Beaubien]

Wow! You have been SUPREMELY busy!! Goodness, look at all of those luscious pages just sitting there. Your productivity is inspiring and I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying the process. Hugs, Shari

[kelly]

ditto on the wow.
i am loving this!

[Nina]

Oh Christine! It is looking amazing. I am so inspired! You rock! Am thinking of you and sending you lots of love.
xo,
Nina

[penelope]

WOW! Very impressive! How I wish I could get in closer to read read read... :)

xo!