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We're shaking things up again! This month, instead of an interview, we've got an essay. It's called "Horse or Princess or..." - and it's about plays and passion and learning a little from little ones. We've got the annual FALLing prices sale on e-courses (see box below).
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And, instead of a new book review, we're going to point you to two older ones. These particular books have kept my head above water lately - and combined with friends who've actually yanked my head up when I've been goin' under for the third time (like wonderhearted Terri St. Cloud, mentioned below) - can be real life savers!
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| Essay: Horse or Princess or...? |
 | I (Karen) am currently in love with this form of psychological type work! It's founded on work by Jung - and it explains so much that goes on in our interactions with each other. I'm an INFP and I'm wondering if Square-Pegness transcends type? If you're already a fan, you'll get a laugh out of this tongue-in-cheek site, The REAL Myers-Briggs Personality Types Made Relevant. If you're new to Myers-Briggs typing, you can use this fr*e quiz. I think it's the easiest way to figure your type, but you can also Google "Myers-Briggs" to look at other test versions.
We're planning to add some Myers-Briggs info to the "Dealing With Relationships"
pages, and would love your input. If you've got a story about how your
understanding of others (and yourself) has increased by using this tool, please
(use the Contact
form) share!
on the blog Square-Peg Reflections:
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It's almost Halloween,
so talking about costumes/roles "fits"... We took Little Princess to her first play recently. It was "The Wizard of Peace", put on by kids and staff from The Peace Center. The experience brought back memories: Aeons ago we took my then 3 y/o son to his first play. The play took place on a wrap-around - "U" shaped stage. In the play a little girl wandered from her home - she began on the left "arm" of the stage, across the front and over to the right "arm". When she turned to go back she realized she was lost. "Where's my house?" she cried. My normally shy, but empathetic son yelled out: "THERE!" - pointing stage left with his pudgy finger. Little Princess enjoyed her first play, just as my son did. There was audience participation - including singing, which she joined in passionately - with no regard for the "right" words! After the performance we asked her what character she' d like to be if she was in a play. She was so ready with an answer: "A horse - so I could knock everything down!" hmmmm. There was more: "OR..." (slower and more wistfully - hands defining the voluminous folds of the gown she imagined) "...a pretty princess!" The coolest thing is - like my son getting so into the play that he yelled in the theatre - Little Princess is so into the NOW that she didn't have to think - she knew what she'd dress up as because she knows who she IS. She's power and beauty, strength and royalty, grace and nobility (ok, I'm waxing poetic here - Little Princess wasn't talking about "grace' when she spoke of knockin' things over). |
I love all of this:
I told her "Fine, you can be a blue bee" (because I am so not going back to the drawing board) - our friend Kate made us laugh by saying "she can be a Seabee". And that's another thing I love about Little Princess - she's kind of gullible. *some royalty look a little horsey, but that's a whole 'nother discussion... | |
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Shares Review Excerpts from
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott and Love Poems from God by Daniel
Ladinsky In Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott tells us what gets her through - what has gotten some of her friends through - and often what she tells us is that what has gotten them through has just barely gotten them through - by the skin of their teeth, you could say. I am comforted in this - her descriptions "feel" like what I go through. The power of this book comes from Lamott's willingness to be IN life with people - in the midst of the big, messy ups and downs. Lamott writes: "Our preacher Veronica said recently...that the world sometimes feels like the waiting room of the emergency ward and that we who are more or less OK for now need to take the tenderest possible care of the more wounded people in the waiting room, until the healer comes."
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Her stories don't always have happy endings.
But they have hope. The book isn't about everything turning out just the way we
planned - it's about things turning out how they are - and being loved - and
loving - in the midst of it all. Read more about this book here .Then there's Love Poems From God - Daniel Ladinsky's unbelievably vibrant translations of 6 Eastern and 6 Western poets of the Spiritual. This is the book I come back to again and again to remember who I am. To remember my connection to the Beloved - to myself - to everyone. When I get myself into a place where I lose the ability to feel gratitude and lose the knowledge of my connection. When I feel less than, abandoned, unloved, or lost (which happens more often than I feel comfortable revealing) I grab this book. Read the rest of this review here.
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 It's bone sigh arts.com founder Terri St.Cloud and her awesome sons!! femail creations has a picture and story about these guys in
their "Meet the Artist" section! Check out her art (use the links above) - you WILL find something that touches your heart, inspires you - because that's what Terri does - because that's who Terri IS! |
We'd love to hear from YOU!
Do you have something to share on the Creativity pages? ...or for the BookLISTs page or...a Myers-Briggs related story? A comment, a question, whatever - drop us a line! Hearing from you keeps us inspired!
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