Article Title: Sometimes My Heart Breathes on Paper Author Name: Julie Jordan Scott Contact Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Word Count: 424 Category: Personal Development, Writing Copyright Date: 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Publishing Guidelines: Thank you for publishing this article in its entirety including the resource box. When possible, please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sometimes My Heart Breathes on Paper © 2004 Julie Jordan Scott "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." Charles Dickens Sometimes my heart breathes on paper. It pours stuff out that I didn't even know was there, way deep down in the bottom of the well, feelings and colors and sounds and tastes and wretched memories tumble forth. I sometimes get embarrassed by the volume or the pitch or the vulnerable place I put myself - apparently voluntarily only it doesn't feel like I am the one doing the volunteering. "Why did you have to go and do that!" my inner critic mocks. "You went and made a fool of yourself again. Why can't you just be satisfied with being like everyone else?" Sometimes my inner critic looks remarkably like my eldest brother. Sometimes my inner critic looks like Miss Pizarro, my third grade teacher. Sometimes my inner critic looks exactly like my reflection in the mirror when I wake up after an unsatisfying sleep. I have learned to gently hush the harshness of my critic because when my heart breathes on the paper, magic happens. I connect to the divine. I move effortlessly through history, space and time by listening to the rhythmic pulses of my heart, the responding woooosh of the blood through my veins as it celebrates, rejoicing "I will keep beating, yes, I will take care of you, yes - I love you." Long ago William Woodsworth wrote the words, "Fill the paper with the breathings of your heart" and his breathings have now reached across the ages to your breathings and your heart. He climbed over and past his critic, through his failures and successes, celebrated the rhythmic pulses and responding wooosh to be a part of your life today. His legacy remains beyond the words alone. Maxwell Anderson wrote: "If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It will fill your heart. " Yes, Mr. Anderson, it will fill your heart. And if we are especially blessed, it will fill the hearts of others as well. Pulse by pulse, breath by breath, yes by yes, word by word. ====== Writer and Success Coach Julie Jordan Scott announces a new way for you to inspire, encourage, nourish, applaud, energize and activate your writing muse.... 42 Days of Writing Passionately -The Fr*e*e International Writing Workshop: Register now http://www.5passions.com/42daysofwritingpassionately.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
