OGT DAILY - Day Eighty JIGGLING

Yes I said jiggling.   Jiggling is my "one good thing" for today.   You probably have no clue what I mean.   Well think about Jello Jigglers and image your body jiggling like that.  It's a Qi Gong exercise and I love it.  There are many different ways to do it, but they all have to do with stimulating and unblocking energy or chi in the body.  I like to do this the way my friend, who is an acupuncturist, taught me.   Stand with your legs hip widths apart, knees bent and just begin to let your body bounce gently.  The arms should be loose and you should allow the body to bounce without trying to do the bouncing.  Once you get into a nice rhythm you can do this for several minutes and it feels great.

I spent the entire day revising and rewriting short stories as there are several April deadlines I'm trying to make. While I have been very focussed on work in the studio, I have abandoned my writing for several months (except for this lovely daily blog).  This has been an abrupt shift in gears and very disorienting.  Writing for me is always that way.  I love it, but I am so in my head that I become a little crazy - neglecting to shop, walk the dog, answer phone calls.  It's true with nonfiction, but even worse with fiction.  When you're writing about characters you have to become them for a little while and they are not always so healthy or moral or together.  They do stupid funny or stupid depressing stuff, and can be mean and/or self destructive.   Needless to say I became like that today and at one point was binge eating a bag of corn chips and completely enjoying it.  Normally I get overwrought when I write, but today I had fun.  I binged on blue corn chips, enjoyed every last crumb, then jiggled for awhile to re-orient and feel just fine.   In the process I got two stories revised.