#25 In My Head

This year, I'm going to spend 31 days writing about places.  In my profession, I talk about place-based writing quite a bit.  I frame it like this when I share:  We believe in the power of including spaces in the process of writing.  Place-based writing is the concept that the place where we write may influence our thinking, impacting the writer’s perspective, engagement, ownership, and/or purpose.  I'm really jazzed up, thinking about where I will spend time as a writer in 31 different spaces this month and how I can use each post to share a little slice of my day. 

Today, the place is right inside my head.

Perhaps this is a stretch, but if the Slice of Life isn't an invitation for creativity, I don't know what is.  

I've been plenty of places today and could share several slices of my day...

• my walk at Tower Grove where I took a great pic of a duck with tuplips
• my work at the community gardent helping with an irrigation system that I am so, so excited about
• my stop at the local mulch pile and plenty of info about how my yard is shaping up
• the upcoming happy hour I will have with my cousin in just one hour!

But, I'd rather talk about how my thinking is being influenced today by a small little meme/quote/whatever I came across online last night.  I just can't stop thinking about it.

And I could seriously cry just writing this because, no, I do not treat myself like someone I love on almost any day.  I believe myself to be a kind and considerate person.  I am gentle with people.  I celebrate people.  I most certainly find the good in people.

I don't have any negative talk to myself, per se... but I also know that I hold myself to some sort of expectation that I hold literally no other human being to.  I am never gentle with myself.  How sad is that?

The place that needs a shift today (and perhaps everyday) is inside my head.  I'm setting a goal to treat myself more like someone I love each day.  Hoping that this might be a message you needed to hear too, dear reader.