A storm is either brewing, raging, or settling for everyone. Always.
Everyone you meet, everyone you scroll past on social media, everyone who is walking on this big rock of a planet has a storm brewing, a storm raging, or a storm calming around them. It is true for you. It is true for me.
Today’s invitation is to take time to consider the storms you’ve faced in life. It can be literal, like the time you survived the tornado or when your parents waited for a fuel pump during a hurricane evacuation. It can be figurative, like the moment you received the diagnosis or the afternoon when you were forgotten.
Rather than writing about the storm, make a list of words or statements that describe the struggle this storm caused you. Your list can include helpful and not so helpful thoughts. Jot a list. Storms and struggles are part of life. They also make great topics for writing.
*Remember, you don’t have to accept this invitation…but I do hope you will accept the invitation to write. Sharing our stories is magical.
PS—I started a Facebook Group for the #sosmagic community. Join here.
write
Open your blog and write a post. Just write.
share
Reply to this post, jot a note and paste your URL.
comment
Comment on other blogs. Soak up the magic that will find you.
grab an image for your blog
Use one of these images so we can find each other…and you can invite others to share their stories with us!
Offer an invitation to others.
I’m joining an open community of writers over at Sharing Our Stories: Magic in a Blog. If you write (or want to write) just for the magic of it, consider this your invitation to join us. #sosmagic
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Writing for Spiritual Journey Thursday and it relates in a way to this topic. A reflection on outer appearances and a poem after Lucille Clifton: https://reflectionsontheteche.com/2021/05/06/spiritual-journey-thursday-blossoming-joy/
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Very important prompt for me to write about today. Have a terrific weekend writing friends.
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Finding ways to give 1st graders voice and choice about the small groups they join. Who Would Like to Join Us? https://teachersbooksreaders.com/…/who-would-like-to…/
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Mothering ourselves through the storms – Thanks, Ruth and SOS writers, as always, for inspiring me!
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Here is my list of thoughts in a storm.
https://ruthayreswrites.com/2021/05/08/thoughts-in-the-middle-of-a-storm/
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An ordinary night.
https://www.juliekcox.com/blog/an-ordinary-thursday-night
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Lessons from Motherhood – 28 of them – one for each year!
http://adayinthelifeof19b.blogspot.com/2021/05/lessons-from-motherhood-sosmagic.html
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Stormy poetry: https://wp.me/s2fY1t-storms
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Storms of Life (Perspective) – https://teacherreaderwriter.blogspot.com/2021/05/storms-of-life-may-9-2021.html
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http://thisandthatbee.blogspot.com/2021/05/sharing-our-stories-my-akr-inspired.html
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(I forgot to leave a note.) Last week, I was asked about my Amy Krouse Rosenthal posts and what the history was behind them. (Thank you, Leigh Anne.) As I thought back to how they began, I decided to make it my story.
https://thisandthatbee.blogspot.com/2021/05/sharing-our-stories-my-akr-inspired.html
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Almost a week late responding, I am here though. https://justforamonth.blogspot.com/2021/05/inner-storms.html
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I’m late, too, but here:
https://goingtowalden.com/2021/05/11/meeting-my-storm/
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