Category: inspiration

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The Voice

Over the last few months, I've been thinking a lot about what Geneen Roth calls The Voice. No, this is not voice in the way we usually talk about it in literature, as in that special, sometimes elusive thing we writers are all seeking.  It is the critical, harping, nagging, unpleasant voice that tells us […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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Bring Love to It

Warning: woo-woo-ness ahead.  But it is good woo-woo-ness, so keep reading. I was writing in my journal this morning (yes, yay, I'm back to doing this fairly regularly again) when I got to a part where I wanted to write about a friend I'd seen recently.  I wanted to write not only about our interaction, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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Seeing Through New Eyes

I've had a friend from Nashville visiting since last Wednesday. She's never been to Oregon before, so I've been showing her around.  We drove to the beach for the day, wandered around the Alphabet and the Pearl districts, drove up the Gorge, and visited a variety of my favorite places to eat.  She met my […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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What Holds You Up?

What Holds You Up? I got the best horoscope ever this morning.  Here it is: Become independent from the things that are holding you back, without abandoning the reliable things that  hold you up. This seems more like advice for living than a horoscope, and it starting me thinking.  First, what are the things that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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Opening the Door

A few years ago, in honor of a landmark birthday (I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to divulge which one) my daughter gave me a tattoo.  Well, more to the point, she gave me the promise of a tattoo.  However, I never took her up on it.  Not because I didn't want a tattoo, but because […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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