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What One Card Can Do
It is one thing to say the ideas for writing are all around you. It is another thing when you get stuck. I mean, well and truly stuck.
Remember when you were little and a piece of the clothing you were wearing wasn’t right? You didn’t have the words to tell anybody what was wrong. The tag in the back of it scratched at your neck. The sleeves were too tight. The buckles on your Merry Janes dug into your foot. So, what did you do? You cried. You pouted. The adults around you didn’t understand. Sometimes they yelled at you to stop crying. It was just terrible.
That’s the feeling. Nothing on paper looks right to you. It’s just all wrong, and you don’t know what to do.
Here is a possible solution. Have at hand something that inspires you.
It might be as simple as going outside to sit in the sun. Maybe a walk around the block. Maybe a cup of tea. Maybe, like I just did, select a card.
The book is Rituals — Light for the Soul by Michael Davis. It is out of print. My husband bought me a boxed set of the book, a deck of 30 cards, and some candles. I pulled the Prosperity card this morning. I almost started crying; it was so profound.
I’d been feeling like something was missing. My writing was off. In fact, the day before yesterday I didn’t write a thing. Me, who writes every day, had a day…
