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February 5, 2015 by HappyGoStuckey 15 Comments

I’ve read several posts and articles lately that have made me say, “Wow,” out loud.

All of them different in nature– but I wanted to share a few with you. Happy Reading, friends!

Link Love

  • The Surprising Truth About Finding My Calling by Emily P. Freeman. (Ack! She gets it so right on point, every time! She likens stepping into her calling with stepping into parenthood, and yes and Amen I felt and feel that same way.)
  • On Surrendering Envy and Being Enough by Alia Joy. (this post had me wiping at tears one minute and laughing out loud another– really the part about the kale and tofu?!? And I happen to have a laminated key fob somewhere *just like hers. Read it. You won’t be sorry.
  • Stocking The Pond by Shauna Niequist. All you writer friends out there, you should NEED to read this. It’s a happy little piece reminding us of why we need to be “Noticers.” I’m working on this more. Trying to pay attention to every thing is helping me grow in more ways than one. Learning to be IN the moment.
  •  And then also for writers, or really if there is anything at all that you have felt a stirring to just-do-already– Read this-  On Becoming A Writer by Jen Hatmaker. One quote I really enjoyed was this–

“Next, I am devastated to bring this bad news, but writing requires work. Kind of hard, brutal, sanity-threatening work. All the writing dreams in your head have to transition to your ten fingers on a keyboard, and I’m afraid there is no other way. (I’m sorry. Take your time.) Work requires time, which of course, you have none of. This is the writer’s dilemma. You will not miraculously become a writer by carrying on exactly like you are. It’s a whole thing and you have to make room for it.– Jen Hatmaker, On Becoming A Writer. 

She says so many helpful things– and  just because she is Jen and she can rock a messy bun like nobody’s business while making you spit your coffee out all over the keyboard because of her many funny things. (No, Husband I did not actually do that. I know we are still trying to sell our computer and I would never do such a thing. Purely hypothetical. )

 

Ok, So I hope you will at least pick one of those articles and find some encouragement, direction, clarity or perhaps much loud guffawing in reading them.

P.S. I hope at least one of you appreciates that NO WHERE in this entire article did I use the word curate. As in, “I carefully curated these articles for you.” I think that word is currently over used and it makes me what to say, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means, ” in my best Inigo Montoya voice. I did not curate, I carefully gathered. Curate sounds like something the Sotheby’s go-fer does.

 

What I Learned in January
Keep At It. (Even in the Messy Middle.)

Comments

  1. Alia Joy says

    February 5, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    Thanks so much, Cynthia. I’m honored you’d feature my post. And oh goodness that key fob was bad. If I still had it I’d post a picture. I’ve had bad ones before but that one was so comically unflattering it has been forever etched in my brain.

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 8, 2015 at 7:29 am

      I’ve decided it should be illegal to have a gym photo taken with a bad camera from a lower angle, showing the most unflattering side of myself. HA!
      I really have gone back and read your post several times Alia, and have heard from several how uplifting it was. Thank you for always showing the parts of you that others shrink back from sharing. You are a beautiful person and writer, especially every time you open the door to the awkward to let someone in.

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  2. Alia Joy says

    February 5, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    Thanks so much, Cynthia. I’m honored you’d feature my post. And oh goodness that key fob was bad. If I still had it I’d post a picture. I’ve had bad ones before but that one was so comically unflattering it has been forever etched in my brain.

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 8, 2015 at 7:29 am

      I’ve decided it should be illegal to have a gym photo taken with a bad camera from a lower angle, showing the most unflattering side of myself. HA!
      I really have gone back and read your post several times Alia, and have heard from several how uplifting it was. Thank you for always showing the parts of you that others shrink back from sharing. You are a beautiful person and writer, especially every time you open the door to the awkward to let someone in.

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  3. Debbie says

    February 5, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    Laughing reading your curate comment. Was just thinking the other day that I’ve seen that word used a ton lately and never seemed to see it used before. Great reads you shared!

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 8, 2015 at 7:29 am

      Hahah! I’m so glad it wasn’t just me! Thank you for stopping by Debbie! <3

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  4. Becky Keife says

    February 5, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    Love this, Cynthia! Thanks for gathering these wonderful words so carefully. (NOT curated…though I would LOVE to hear you say that line in your best Inigo voice…while swashbuckling, preferably.) 😉

    I hadn’t caught Alia’s incourage post when it was first published and I am so grateful you pointed us to it. Such a gift.

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 8, 2015 at 7:30 am

      Wow I love that movie! We watched it so much growing up! Glad you stopped by friend. Hope it’s a wonder-filled week in CA for you! 😉

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  5. Becky Keife says

    February 5, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    Love this, Cynthia! Thanks for gathering these wonderful words so carefully. (NOT curated…though I would LOVE to hear you say that line in your best Inigo voice…while swashbuckling, preferably.) 😉

    I hadn’t caught Alia’s incourage post when it was first published and I am so grateful you pointed us to it. Such a gift.

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 8, 2015 at 7:30 am

      Wow I love that movie! We watched it so much growing up! Glad you stopped by friend. Hope it’s a wonder-filled week in CA for you! 😉

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  6. Teresa says

    February 9, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    Read Emily’s post, will have to check out the others. The word that is bugging me right now is the use of Bespoke – I’m thinking it is becoming the new overused word of the moment as it has shown up several times lately. Not sure why it bugs me, but it does. I think it may be a little pretentious – no offense to anyone who loves the word. 🙂 I’m sure you could find a way to use curate and bespoke in the same sentence. That would probably be just a little too much!

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 10, 2015 at 6:47 am

      HA! Bespoke. Yes! Thank you for stopping by Teresa. Always happy to have you here. I just read your last post on “not,” and I hope you find refreshing and a new found way in which to write. Perhaps clearing the space around that part of you is just what you need. Blessings.

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  7. Teresa says

    February 9, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    Read Emily’s post, will have to check out the others. The word that is bugging me right now is the use of Bespoke – I’m thinking it is becoming the new overused word of the moment as it has shown up several times lately. Not sure why it bugs me, but it does. I think it may be a little pretentious – no offense to anyone who loves the word. 🙂 I’m sure you could find a way to use curate and bespoke in the same sentence. That would probably be just a little too much!

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    • happygostuckey says

      February 10, 2015 at 6:47 am

      HA! Bespoke. Yes! Thank you for stopping by Teresa. Always happy to have you here. I just read your last post on “not,” and I hope you find refreshing and a new found way in which to write. Perhaps clearing the space around that part of you is just what you need. Blessings.

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