Short story: maybe what you need is in the other side of the phone line.
Something beautiful to read and a follow-up on how to "catch the muse of inspiration" first thing in the morning
Finally Saturday
Thank you for taking these minutes to Escribir en Voz Alta. I am very pleased with the results of the survey about what content you would like to receive here. The two most popular results were: Opinion and Something Beautiful to Read. I'm glad because I feel that as a writer I've always had that dichotomy of a journalistic voice / a voice that exalts the beautiful, so we agree on something: I'm going to exercise both.
Today I share with you: Something beautiful to read and a continuation of how I've been "catching the muse of inspiration" first thing in the morning. I’ll do an opinion next week.
Is not about been a tree, but a seed
One morning I was staring at the giant branches of a moss-covered tree here in Georgia while I was talking to Charly on the phone.
—I just don't know where my home is any more or where I'm supposed to go," I said, as I fanned myself with my hand, "It's like I don't know where I'm supposed to be or where my people are or what I'm supposed to be doing.
Charly has been my best friend for more than 20 years. Whenever we talk it's like that, very transcendental. Sometimes I talk to him and I feel like I'm talking to an oracle.
—To find people to accompany you, you have to start the journey," I stopped in the shade and turned up the volume to listen well, "You know what you have to face in life. If what I am going to do is to find my voice, that is what I must follow. You have always had your calling, ever since you first felt it. That experience is always replicated and I believe that the world is much bigger than what you know now. I feel that there are spaces that are no longer for you and that's okay. You have to be brave. Sometimes you think that the place where you are is where you are, but maybe the call is in another land.
I looked up following every strand of moss and every branch of the tree. I kept listening:
—One learns that in the calling, the most important thing is the seed and not the soil. And it doesn't matter that before you wanted to be one thing and now you are another because everything you sow will bear different fruits, we are not one thing. One is going to walk all one's life, always carrying one's seed. One is cultivating all one's life. And sometimes I doubt too, but the strength that gets me out of bed every day is in my conviction in God, in knowing that my future is assured in him. What has always carried you forward is the seed. It is that unique voice. You have changed land. You sowed here and then you went to sow in another land, but it does not stop there. You have to make decisions from love and not from fear. You have to be brave.
I grabbed the phone tightly and started walking back to the house. Charly said:
—True love is greater than fear.
Catching the muse of inspiration
I’ve been struggling for a long time to write things that fit what I find beautiful. For a long time (more than I should) I thought I had to expose myself to different people, environments, and experiences until suddenly, in a mystical-magical moment, the muse of inspiration would come to me and make me write. The truth is that this rarely happens.
The real struggle of writing mine is to make it a habit. That's why I keep motivational quotes and read books on "The Power of When". To see when will be that when and that beautiful morning when writing becomes my biggest habit.
In the first delivery of this newsletter, I told you about chronotypes and how the idea of "it's not about the what but the when" completely changed the way I live my routine. Today I'm going to tell you how I've been integrating the first part of the ideal routine and what should work for you every morning.
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