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HEART PONDERINGS … sharing with you the things I keep in my heart

My Intention: Wholehearted Engagement

June 10, 2014 by Linda A Marshall 1 Comment

…we must dare to show up and let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Brené Brown I place a star next to the paragraph I just highlighted in my copy of Brené Brown’s book, Daring Greatly, where she writes about the vulnerability of putting our writing out into the world with […]

Filed Under: Spiritual Growth, Writing Tagged With: Evolving, Vulnerability

An Adventure in LIVING

April 27, 2014 by Linda A Marshall 2 Comments

As the Mad Anthony Writer’s Workshop (April 4-6) draws near, e-mails fly back and forth. Nita, my writing partner, and I help each other put finishing touches on our pitches.    Nita with her Bluebells   In the writing business, a “pitch” is a one-to-three minute elevator speech to an agent communicating what is distinctive […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Community, Memoir

The Plot Sisters

April 15, 2014 by Linda A Marshall 1 Comment

Today I want to acknowledge five vibrant Dayton writers. They dub themselves “The Plot Sisters,” meet regularly to critique each other’s writing, and attend writing conferences together.   Traci Ison Schafer, Cindy Cremeans, Christina Consolino, Jen Messaros Ruthann Kain (not pictured)   Fortuitously, I reconnected with four of them at the Mad Anthony Writer’s Conference […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Community

An Abundance of Riches

April 14, 2014 by Linda A Marshall Leave a Comment

I’m overflowing with gratitude for the abundance enriching my life the past couple of weekends.    What an adventure attending my first writer’s conference, The Mad Anthony Writer’s Conference, at Miami University Hamilton last weekend. There will be more to come on this topic in future posts. http://writelikemad.com/   Our Cincinnati Writer’s Group met yesterday. […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Community, Gratitude

My Journey with Grace

March 18, 2014 by Linda A Marshall 2 Comments

Early years:   Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. Anne Lamott  Grace is tied to our image of God and what it means to be human. When I was in my early teens, the parish worker in our church helped me develop a loving image of God […]

Filed Under: Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Awakening, Grace

Finding My Voice as a Writer

February 27, 2014 by Linda A Marshall 7 Comments

And the truth of your experience can only come through in your own voice. Anne Lamott As an introvert, I’m more comfortable speaking before a large gathering than engaging one-on-one. For me, opening up is reserved for only a trusted few. Listening is more my mode of being, something that seems to be a lost […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Memoir

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