by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 13, 2015 | 1 true thing |
For years and years I did the next thing–usually very happily. But it took writing to make me present in the moment. In #116 I wrote, This minute, I’m doing the next thing. And that was, in fact, what I had been aware of before I sat down in the spa. But...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 12, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I hate calling attention to myself and/or attention being called to me. My face turns red, and it makes me want to crawl in a hole. I would like to be present in the moment and make the best of it, or even enjoy it. I want to have been here. ~ 365 true things about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 11, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When we arrived in Provincetown on Saturday, there was a race going on. Cool t-shirt, I thought, liking the way it was divided into four squares… Which got me thinking about my own inner wild and what that might look like at this moment… What’s in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 10, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Mother’s Day in our neck of the woods looks like church and lunch at the country club, but at some point when the kids were little, I said, Wait a minute. If this really is my day, if this is a day for me, if this is the day I get to do what I want, then I want...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 9, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Columbus, Minneapolis, Boulder, Provincetown, Culver City, Provincetown–my last five Saturdays. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 8, 2015 | 1 true thing |
This minute, I’m inhaling eucalyptus. This minute, I don’t have the big picture of what needs doing. This minute, I’m listening to a serbian band. This minute, I’m getting a pedicure. This minute, I’m doing the next thing. ~ 365 true...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 7, 2015 | 1 true thing, journeys, my writing |
When my youngest was two and I had a little free time, I started thinking about what I wanted to do next. I loved to read. I loved books. I was fascinated by writers and how they did it. They were so cool. So one day–March 26, 1995–I pulled over to the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 6, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I want it to end happily ever after. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily practice
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 5, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Growing up, I was always the narrator in school plays–sitting on a high stool just behind the curtain. But at camp one summer, I was given a real part. The counselor in charge of the play ended up screaming at me to act–that’s what it took to get me...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 4, 2015 | 1 true thing |
From the moment I left for college, life felt as if it were one exciting thing after another. And I remember wondering, mid-thirties maybe, how I would feel when there wasn’t anything exciting to look forward to. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
