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Thursday Seeds | Cook the Beast
Roast the bird. Take your time, do it over a long period of time at a lower temperature. Be sure to baste the bird. To taste the bird only after the temperature is perfect. (165 degrees) Stay in and cook the beast. You are cold? Put the soup on. Cook the beast ALL day! Cast iron or lecreuset, make it happen with garlic and salt and the best grassfed butter you can find. Chemical reactions of salt in cooking are taste, not reaction. No catalyst to be had except yum! Slow cook it so it doesn’t even know what happened like the frog in a pot. It’s just a hot…
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Thursday Seeds | Monkey Mind
I should do this. In the middle of doing this, I need to do that! What’s the laundry look like? Did that kid of mine lock the door? Is the coffee pot on? [insert other appliance that can take you down this road] You know this road? It’s the road that keeps you from what you most need to do: CALM DOWN! Not one person can tell you to calm down and you do it. It almost never works unless you’ve done the work. Did you forget that person’s name that you are about to introduce? Worse, did you say their name wrong? “Where’s Jeff?” “Oh you mean Jim?” Oops.…
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Thursday Seeds | Water Her Down (Part 1)
Just like the plants, she needs water. Every human is 60% water. She needs more. There are internet breakdowns that suggest that we need even more depending on the part of the body. Brain: 75%. Blood 83% Heart: 79% Bones: 22% Muscles: 75% Liver: 85%. Kidneys: 83% And this water that resides cannot just sit there. Circulatory system doesn’t work so well unless that water comes right back out. And guess what, It can’t JUST be from the kidneys. That means sweat. She has to sweat. She has to sweat it. She has to move until she sweats. Now the most delicious way to do that is: ……. …
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Thursday Seeds | Drop a Toe in the cold
Try something new! “Try it, you’ll like it!” “I didn’t know I liked that!” “Have you tried ______?” Venture away from the familiar and try something new. What are you afraid of? That something new might get you lost? It might lead to cold limbs? It might lead to the best gelato that you’ve tasted since that place in Buckhead around the corner from the Cafe tu tu tango. It’s possible. You might be cold while you enjoy it. March has lead us into a nice early spring but cold weather could invade at any time and quite frankly, we are already spoiled with the warmer weather. Have you put…
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Thursday Seeds | Discipline Your own Destiny
Wake up early Steal the day – call in sick And just sit Make yourself let go of it You know it’s nagging at you AND by the third day (long weekend) You start to unwind and let go And what flows out of you Is good And you may even have the perception that it’s better than the first day. Because you haven’t learned that lesson “Neither good or bad.” And once you get that lesson Fear no longer rules you And your abilities are no longer inhibited. You start to wake up early Walking in the morning Stretches as soon as you get out of the bed Breakfast…
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Thursday Seeds | Motivate Yourself
Motivating yourself is not that hard if it is regarding subjects that naturally interest you. The first item is to ask yourself the question: “what is your passion?” Once your direction is decided, and really even if you are still in the process of deciding, you can begin with setting a routine. There are tenants for your routine that you can list out and work towards making them happen. You’d like to write? Set a routine at the same time every day with a time limit for practice. Journaling after and then research that leads into the heavy writing of your next book. These points work if writing is your…
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Thursday Seeds: Forced Progress
You’ve made a deadline for yourself. You picked it out more than a year ago. So much has happened since then. And yet still you are going to make this happen come “not heaven or high water.” (See what I did there? It falls flat doesn’t it?) It comes together. The browns should in fact have a whole lot more depth and shades to them because your work is centered around the theme of dirt. Your empire of dirt is flat because you forced it. If you had found out that the theme of dirt was the case earlier, then maybe your mix of paints would be the very thing…
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Thursday Seeds: Inner Listening
It can only happen when you stop and do so with intention. The reason could be, as I saw on a TV show last night, to reaffirm that happens next. A brief pause even in a critical emergency that can deviate the course of the outcome. It was the case in diagnosing a patient. A few seconds of waiting in that setting that can seem like a life time. And yet, it’s only long enough to hear what wasn’t heard or to correct what was likely mis-heard. It happens. We want the best things to happen and yet that might not actually be what is actually going on. That course…
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Thursday Seeds: Talk to your Characters
The voices in your head that are your characters… Are you crazy? In a sense, you are, but don’t take yourself to the hospital just yet. Get their names down. If they don’t want you to know them, they shut up real fast. If they don’t care, you can have a conversation that may even tell you about the characters in your next book. If you talk with authors, they will tell you that the best characters have minds of their own. They don’t fit in a sweet box and they usually, if given room, will change your story for the better. You hear all the time as a writer,…
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Thursday Seeds: Animals that talk
Photo motivations. Two sacked out cats. Snacks woke everyone up, now. Animals that talk. The ones that insist on snuggling. The ones that insist on being right up next to you at night or on the writing table when you write. And lord help you if you have two cats like that and they are fighting over the real estate that is your writing table. It doesn’t happen that often because they all get purged then. I go upstairs. One cat is in the bathroom having water from the plastic bowl set up for her in there. The other is taking the steps two and six at a time with…
