I know, I know, I have used this title before. Guess what I am still waiting. I am often waiting. I have waited in hospital waiting rooms, I have waited in dentist offices, I have waited for the phone to ring. I bet you have too.
I am waiting, yes many of you know, especially those of you who ask, that I am waiting to hear from a publisher. I am not waiting to hear from just any publisher. I am waiting to hear from the publisher who is going to say yes. The one who is going to say YES. The one who is going to say, "we have a contract for you to sign."
Did you know that I am the same age as Laura Ingalls Wilder was when she published "Little House on the Prairie?" It is true I am now sixty five. I have been living into my craft as a writer for five years. It is hard to believe that is already and only five years.
So as I wait to hear not from the encouraging publishers, although I have valued all encouragement that came my way, not from the NO publishers, although they too do important work, but from the publisher that will say yes, I seek to live with the practice of ikigai. (Thank you, Doris Jakobsh, for teaching me this word from Japanese.)
I seek to have a sense of life and of living that includes looking for joy in small things and to being present and creating a harmonious atmosphere. My word for 2020 is receive and so today I receive the gift of ikigai even as I wait, even as I write new pieces, even as I create new stories, even as I recover from colds.
I hold joy and presence and seek to create harmony.
and I have to tell you sometimes, I hate waiting!!
gloria fern January 2020
I am waiting, yes many of you know, especially those of you who ask, that I am waiting to hear from a publisher. I am not waiting to hear from just any publisher. I am waiting to hear from the publisher who is going to say yes. The one who is going to say YES. The one who is going to say, "we have a contract for you to sign."
Did you know that I am the same age as Laura Ingalls Wilder was when she published "Little House on the Prairie?" It is true I am now sixty five. I have been living into my craft as a writer for five years. It is hard to believe that is already and only five years.
So as I wait to hear not from the encouraging publishers, although I have valued all encouragement that came my way, not from the NO publishers, although they too do important work, but from the publisher that will say yes, I seek to live with the practice of ikigai. (Thank you, Doris Jakobsh, for teaching me this word from Japanese.)
I seek to have a sense of life and of living that includes looking for joy in small things and to being present and creating a harmonious atmosphere. My word for 2020 is receive and so today I receive the gift of ikigai even as I wait, even as I write new pieces, even as I create new stories, even as I recover from colds.
I hold joy and presence and seek to create harmony.
and I have to tell you sometimes, I hate waiting!!
gloria fern January 2020
