Creative Meanderings

Do you have a pet who shares your writing space?

Cats 🐈 are my spirit animal even though I identify with eagles 🦅 .

For as long as I can remember I have had cats despite never really staying in one place long enough to see them grow old. My parents kept my childhood kitty and throughout my life kitties have come and gone in my home as I’ve moved country to country.

Recently, my husband was starting to feel the empty nest and suggested we take on some cats with the promise that this time we keep them forever. 😻

Since I have never paid for cats, with so many out there in need of homes – maybe it’s my adoption issue -, we waited until the timing was right. Well, the universe provided us with some new kits.

This is one of the three. He is actually only staying with this until he can go overseas to join his original family. However, he’s also the friendliest after just a couple of weeks.

The other two are ours and they are sweet though more camera shy. 😉

So, at the moment they kindly leave me alone when I want to do some writing, but they also bring me joy when I need a bit of a distraction. 😻😻😻

~T :Dm

Share a story you wish you had written

I’m not actually sure what this prompt is asking. Is it asking for a story that is mine which I have not yet written, but wish I had? Is it asking for a story that is published that I wish I had written and published myself?

If it is the latter, that seems rather strange as it’s not my story, so why would I wish to have written it myself?

If it is the former, by sharing the story then does that mean I’ve made my wish come true? Hm…

In any case, the safer and more optimistic choice is the former. However, I don’t have enough time at this moment to share a full story. Rather, I shall do as I more often do – commentary on my thoughts around this. 😛

There are many stories that I wish I had written, but there are none that I can not yet write. Thus, my wish can always come true. For example, I still plan to share the stories of my final years in the desert. Or, I am working on how to share the story of my birth family search. Plus, I’ve got stories of my travels around the world.

In the future, I hope to tell other stories. The stories of my grandmothers are worth sharing as they fascinated me when they told them to me or I later heard about them. Very different women who still made a mark on their worlds.

So, there is no story that I wish to have written as I still can and will. There is no story that I wish to steal to say that it was mine because, well, it’d be a different story.

Hope that doesn’t ruin the prompt in any way… a cynic’s mind can never just make one clear-cut decision. 😉

~T 😀

Coffee. ☕️

Need I say more? 😜

~T 😀

Favorite writing blog or social media account

Honestly, I barely find time to write on my own blog or read headlines on the news each day that the idea of following other blogs is a bit overwhelming to me. Therefore, I am not really a blog follower these days. Though, I am open to ones that are amazing 😉.

As for social media, I admit that I am rather egocentric when it comes to social media. I post with the belief and hope that people read my words to be interested in MY life. 😜 I half joke.

I follow a lot of social media accounts, but none in the world of writing ✍️ specifically. Recently, I did start following Elizabeth Gilbert on Instagram and would like to spend more time finding accounts like hers. So, I guess I’ll take today’s prompt as a push to do just that.

It’s going on my to-do list this week. 📝

So, learning point made! More to come!

~T 😀