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Updated: 12/22/2024

I have a few things currently in the works! More than that, I've kind of been seeing a path to being able to get back to actual WRITING again. I realized 2024 is going to be the first year that I haven't written/finished writing a book since I started writing them nearly a decade and a half ago. That's crazy. But... it definitely either makes sense of my internal state or is a reflection of it this year.

I did have a moment of assessing the year as a whole, I think last night. It's been ROUGH. BUT. I realized it's in ways been like having poison drained from your spirit and healing from an extensive injury that put you down for a long stretch. There are things I was afraid of at the start of the year, and they just AREN'T THERE anymore. So, while it hasn't been as 'productive' a year in the sense of books as what I'm accustomed to, on a personal level... it definitely has. 

I used to feel that I had to write--that it was the only way to be okay. And it was. I didn't know WHY at the time; I just knew it in my soul.
I know why now and have for a while.

This year, I had little WANT to write. I wanted to live my own life instead of writing about lives of invisible people. And it was HARD for me, in a lot of ways. To stop my hands and look up from work.

Even if I had little WANT to write...
Inspiration struck probably well over a hundred times. I saw flashes of beautiful stories that I could sit down and write.

But it wasn't time.

I really had to get myself right this year, in a great many ways. There were clear moments of improvement, where I felt I'd finally gotten to the other side of something, but it's only really right now in this time (the last week or so) where I truly do see a path to good movement. ('Movement' is something that's been a problem this year in a lot of different aspects.) One part of that is maybe letting go of this feeling that I must do all the things alone. That has been so hard for me. The feeling of having to AND the letting go of it. In order to feel that it's okay to let loose your grip of something, you have to feel safe enough that you're not going to be hurt when you do.
I've had some tight grips on a lot of things I've been working on letting loose of (and things that have been worked on without me necessarily knowing until they were already done), and I know that can free my 'hands' for other things. Better things. Much better, I hope, than all the things one can cling to out of pain.

Much better, I know. That's what I should've said. So... *correction....

2025 is going to be better. I feel that, and I'm looking forward to it. Maybe another new story or two will open up to me, and maybe my hands will be in better state to take care of them. Maybe the last big fear or two that I have will be completely gone from me by this time next year and all that will be left is joy. Hands in better state. Mind, body, spirit, heart in better state. Hands. I know I said, but it's a big thing....

I know I haven't been my usual SUPER CHIPPER self this year, and I'm sorry. I'm also sorry about the lack of updates. I tend to withdraw at times (and often). I was working on recovering from some odd sorts of spiritual damage, some newer and some that I'd been kind of holding onto for a good 25-30 years or so. 
Then again... I kind of just don't talk much and at times wish I could just go through life where it could be like dogs. (Life.) They communicate without words, and yet you see so much in their eyes. If I could talk that way... it would be a lot easier for me.

Alas! That's one thing I can't change. Only human and all.........

Dang, I'm rambling.

I got on here just to wish everyone happy holidays! (Then ended up saying all that! ha!)

I hope so much that everyone has the merriest Christmas and the happiest New Year leading into the new year. I hope it's a time filled with family, joy, light, life, love, celebration. I hope you all start your new year off in a beautiful way, setting the tone for the year as a whole.

I hope, so much, that everyone is happy, healthy, and well.

<3 C

I'm still waiting on a good snow here. Someday. Hopefully soon. ❄️

🎄❄️MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR (FROM ME, C)! ❄️🎄

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The Start of 2024!

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The First Half of 2023!

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