My Mission Statement:

• I will write only from my inner sense of truth.

• I will write the stories in my head, and those that I dream, letting them flow from me without forcing or contriving.

• I will write, as much a possible, from a place of kindness, and, failing that, a place of compassion.

• I will claim the stories of my lives, even when those stories are not pretty.

• When the stories are ugly, and others have a place in that ugliness, I will present the story with perspective and without blame – because, when people do ugly things, I believe we do them out of wounded places within us.

• I will revel in my writing.

• Writing will be my avocation – not a chore or a duty, but a joy and bliss…

• I will learn myself, and the inner reality of my soul.

• I will learn others, and the outer world.

• I will deepen and broaden in the process.

• When I can, I will present a guidepost along the way, to point others toward a direction they may have been seeking.

• When I can, I will offer a way to awaken, to see more deeply and clearly.

• I will question assumptions, including my own, especially those that seem so often to go thoroughly unexamined.

• I will free my creativity to play in whatever areas most delight it.

• I will share the magic I find in the everyday, and offer it freely to anyone who wishes to partake of it.

• I will support others who are seeking or moving in tune to their own deepest purpose.

• I will focus on the positives – laughter, joy, healing, peace, wonder….and because this is a world of opposites and degrees and infinite shadings, when I must reveal the darker side of things, I will always seek, even there, the hint of light and love and the possibility of better moments ahead.

• I will be generous with my words and my thoughts, giving much away without asking anything in return, except perhaps to know when my words have touched someone…

• In my life, I will move toward joy and sweetness and peace, and I will joyfully share the journey.

• I will stretch and reach and strive, and grow…and that will mean offering my words in more places, and interacting more fully…