Yeah, so, now I'm launching my Happiness Practice with a seminar. Yay!
And I came confidently onto my website to see what it looked like to newcomers and almost screamed at the assault on the visual senses.
So I am going to put that on my list of things to work on.
Meanwhile, I have posted my flyer as the new front page. And now I'm going to go do something soothing, like fold laundry.
I hope you have a great day!
-L
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Yup, still practicing
So in case you're wondering what I'm doing with my blog these days, I've decided to post everything in Meanderings, instead of having different labels for different topics. I'm just not consistent enough to warrant different blogs right now - and this way, I don't have to "Label" or limit what I'm posting.
So, I will be taking the other blogs off the tabs on top; but they will still available from the main page, if you'd like to revisit old posts.
And that's the way it is - this week.
-L
So, I will be taking the other blogs off the tabs on top; but they will still available from the main page, if you'd like to revisit old posts.
And that's the way it is - this week.
-L
Friday, January 29, 2016
Happiness is... Reading Runes at Spirit Wise
Hello to you!
I am excited to announce that I have joined the team of readers and healers at Spirit Wise.
Spirit Wise is a metaphysical store in Centennial, CO. Not only do we carry a variety of incense, candles, and oils, Spirit Wise has some of the most beautiful jewelry I have seen. If you wish to check out the website, it's www.spiritwisegifts.com.
You may know that I used to work there - on the floor, teaching classes, and reading runes. It was one of the most influential periods of my life, and I have missed that community connection.
Starting February 3rd, I will be at Spirit Wise on Wednesdays, helping customers and offering rune readings.
If you'd like to schedule a reading (between 11:30 am and 6:30 pm), please call Spirit Wise 303-730-2974.
Or just stop in; I can show you my favorite stones.
And yes, I have done a rune reading for the Aquarius moon. It is HERE.
I hope you're having a great day!
-Lila
I am excited to announce that I have joined the team of readers and healers at Spirit Wise.
Spirit Wise is a metaphysical store in Centennial, CO. Not only do we carry a variety of incense, candles, and oils, Spirit Wise has some of the most beautiful jewelry I have seen. If you wish to check out the website, it's www.spiritwisegifts.com.
You may know that I used to work there - on the floor, teaching classes, and reading runes. It was one of the most influential periods of my life, and I have missed that community connection.
Starting February 3rd, I will be at Spirit Wise on Wednesdays, helping customers and offering rune readings.
If you'd like to schedule a reading (between 11:30 am and 6:30 pm), please call Spirit Wise 303-730-2974.
Or just stop in; I can show you my favorite stones.
And yes, I have done a rune reading for the Aquarius moon. It is HERE.
I hope you're having a great day!
-Lila
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Well, this is a fine mess...
...and I mean fine as in small, thin, insubstantial in feel. (I'm going to have to look that up for my word for the day.) Difficult to pick up, difficult to contain, slippery. And tangled.
I am in the middle, or the end, or possibly the eye of the tornado (is that the one with water?) staring at all the possiblities around me. Do I want to blog, for myself or others? What about coaching? What about Rune Readings? What about, what about, what about...
And with my blogs, I have so many options also.
And let us remember (please, let us remember) that I have stories I WANT TO WRITE! It's almost like I'm waiting for something, but I can't see what it is.
Okay. Inhale, exhale. Just keep moving forward, following the ideas that pop into my head, and seeing where they lead.
I hope you're having a great day!
-Lila
I am in the middle, or the end, or possibly the eye of the tornado (is that the one with water?) staring at all the possiblities around me. Do I want to blog, for myself or others? What about coaching? What about Rune Readings? What about, what about, what about...
And with my blogs, I have so many options also.
And let us remember (please, let us remember) that I have stories I WANT TO WRITE! It's almost like I'm waiting for something, but I can't see what it is.
Okay. Inhale, exhale. Just keep moving forward, following the ideas that pop into my head, and seeing where they lead.
I hope you're having a great day!
-Lila
Saturday, January 2, 2016
What aren't I doing?!!!
Okay, quick update, cuz if you've been keeping track, you'll notice a lot of activity all of the sudden.
I decided to add two new blogs - because I wanted them for me, and cuz I'm a writer, and cuz I'm really practicing putting my writing out there - one called Today's Practice... which is kind of akin to Life in Runes, except there are no runes. Just intentions for the daily practice. The other called Literal Logophile, which i just discovered I had named LoBophile. With a B. As in, a person who loves words but doesn't spellcheck her stuff.
Which is pretty accurate, actually. Maybe I should leave it. Hmm.
Anyway. I am also fixing up the first page of UnicAllen.com to reflect all the new stuff. I want to have it be prettier. I want to bring in more viewers and some income. (Yeah, lots of income. Yay income!).
I hope to get back to doing rune readings at least once a week. And I might actually post a meandering thought any day.
It's been an interesting Dark time (which doesn't actually fall in the winter. It's before winter. Kind of strange, since winter is the fallow time seasonally. But maybe it's not. The dark hour before dawn. Something to ponder. Back to me.) and I am looking forward to a lot of happy, writerly activity.
As always, thanks for being part of the journey.
-L
I decided to add two new blogs - because I wanted them for me, and cuz I'm a writer, and cuz I'm really practicing putting my writing out there - one called Today's Practice... which is kind of akin to Life in Runes, except there are no runes. Just intentions for the daily practice. The other called Literal Logophile, which i just discovered I had named LoBophile. With a B. As in, a person who loves words but doesn't spellcheck her stuff.
Which is pretty accurate, actually. Maybe I should leave it. Hmm.
Anyway. I am also fixing up the first page of UnicAllen.com to reflect all the new stuff. I want to have it be prettier. I want to bring in more viewers and some income. (Yeah, lots of income. Yay income!).
I hope to get back to doing rune readings at least once a week. And I might actually post a meandering thought any day.
It's been an interesting Dark time (which doesn't actually fall in the winter. It's before winter. Kind of strange, since winter is the fallow time seasonally. But maybe it's not. The dark hour before dawn. Something to ponder. Back to me.) and I am looking forward to a lot of happy, writerly activity.
As always, thanks for being part of the journey.
-L
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Oh, hello.
Hello to you!
Yes, it's been a while. A long while. I seem to have dropped out of sight - which would be a literal thing, wouldn't it, considering we're discussing blogs.
I have been practicing focusing on my writing... from a professional angle. I think I have posted about this previously (in Meanderings), about the Writers' Group session in which the question was posed - what does it mean to be a professional writer?
And of course, I further took that to, do I WANT to be a professional writer? Am I happy when I am writing? The answer is, yes. Yup. Uh huh. Ja. Da. You betcha. Let's do it. Come on!
So, I have been practicing being a professional writer. Focusing my time. Scheduling my time. Honoring my time. And connecting with writing communities - on twitter, on FB, by newsletter and post.
In October, I did an excellent job of sticking to my time table. I have it in two parts - Structure and Writing. Interestingly, I haven't been getting much writing "writing" done... instead, my writing hours are occupied with fine-tuning Destiny Foretold - which means making sure I have a glossary set up, that I am spelling all the names the same, and that my time-line is meticulously tracked. This is important for two reasons - 1) there are two other books in the series and I need to be clear about what happens where; and 2) I am searching for agents. (hello, Agents!)
The search for agents is more involved than just sending a properly worded query letter - at least for me and my happiness. I realized (finally!) it's not just about someone liking my writing enough to help it expand. It's about connections. It's another version of finding my people.
I can do this. I am doing this. Yay me!
So, that's a quick glimpse into what I'm doing these days. Practicing professionalism. Next step, scheduling household matters around my writing. Blogging soon to follow. And maybe even the occasional Life in Runes. (Yay multiple streams of happiness!)
I imagine you're practicing your happiness on your own interesting journey of transformation and growth. If you're like me, it's a matter of remembering to breath. And knowing, each day is a new day with new choices.
I hope you're having a great day! I know I am.
-Lila
Yes, it's been a while. A long while. I seem to have dropped out of sight - which would be a literal thing, wouldn't it, considering we're discussing blogs.
I have been practicing focusing on my writing... from a professional angle. I think I have posted about this previously (in Meanderings), about the Writers' Group session in which the question was posed - what does it mean to be a professional writer?
And of course, I further took that to, do I WANT to be a professional writer? Am I happy when I am writing? The answer is, yes. Yup. Uh huh. Ja. Da. You betcha. Let's do it. Come on!
So, I have been practicing being a professional writer. Focusing my time. Scheduling my time. Honoring my time. And connecting with writing communities - on twitter, on FB, by newsletter and post.
In October, I did an excellent job of sticking to my time table. I have it in two parts - Structure and Writing. Interestingly, I haven't been getting much writing "writing" done... instead, my writing hours are occupied with fine-tuning Destiny Foretold - which means making sure I have a glossary set up, that I am spelling all the names the same, and that my time-line is meticulously tracked. This is important for two reasons - 1) there are two other books in the series and I need to be clear about what happens where; and 2) I am searching for agents. (hello, Agents!)
The search for agents is more involved than just sending a properly worded query letter - at least for me and my happiness. I realized (finally!) it's not just about someone liking my writing enough to help it expand. It's about connections. It's another version of finding my people.
I can do this. I am doing this. Yay me!
So, that's a quick glimpse into what I'm doing these days. Practicing professionalism. Next step, scheduling household matters around my writing. Blogging soon to follow. And maybe even the occasional Life in Runes. (Yay multiple streams of happiness!)
I imagine you're practicing your happiness on your own interesting journey of transformation and growth. If you're like me, it's a matter of remembering to breath. And knowing, each day is a new day with new choices.
I hope you're having a great day! I know I am.
-Lila
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Newsletter - Virgo 2015
Hello to you!
I apologize for missing last month. It was a standard Lila pattern -- write it, edit it, and never send it. I plead a massive amount of processing.
But what were I processing, you ask?
Well, death and grief is at the top of the list, as I recently finished my volunteer training for Denver Hospice. The varied ways humans feel and express is a continued source of amazement for me.
Naturally, the training led to processing my personal griefs and deaths. We did an exercise - the time line of loss. And we listed, on this time line, all of our losses. Of course, at my awesomely enlightened age, I know that loss doesn't just include death. It includes all the changes we go through, and all the things - homes, cars, jobs - we attach too and eventually release.
In fact, it reminded me of Inside Out. (And if you haven't seen the movie, this is a bit of a spoiler.) When the main character went through something huge, something that required new tools to deal with, she ended up releasing a lot of her childhood attachments, crumbling foundations to rebuild something new and stronger. I think, as we grow and expand our experiences, we do the same, constantly. We build, redesign, tear down, rebuild, redecorate, release, rebuild… Perhaps all of us have a fantastical Escher-like construction inside to represent our most stable foundation.
So, to sum up, I've been processing loss and learning (most importantly?) there is no time-line for grief, and no exact pattern for grieving. And that loss affects more than just the relationship between me & the one who died. I've been finding a peace with a lot of changes in my life. Which, naturally, signaled an explosion of new things to process about myself.
What else I want for, with, and from my writing; the comfort of cargo pants; changing taste buds; that I have certain habits in new situations. And realizing I like my self-improvement process better than anyone else's.
Which of course led to more processing about my personal truths, perspectives, goals for the future.
Obviously, the processing, and the growing hasn't stopped. It might never. But one of the things I processed about my writing is I really like it. So much, I'm now practicing how much time to give where. Meandering? Stories? So much to say, but what do I really, really want to share? And how?
Meanwhile, here's the next newsletter.
Let's hear it for adventures, the kind we look back on with a kind of dazed and hazy memory and scratch our heads and say, "I worked through that? I so rock."
I hope you have a great month!
-lila
I apologize for missing last month. It was a standard Lila pattern -- write it, edit it, and never send it. I plead a massive amount of processing.
But what were I processing, you ask?
Well, death and grief is at the top of the list, as I recently finished my volunteer training for Denver Hospice. The varied ways humans feel and express is a continued source of amazement for me.
Naturally, the training led to processing my personal griefs and deaths. We did an exercise - the time line of loss. And we listed, on this time line, all of our losses. Of course, at my awesomely enlightened age, I know that loss doesn't just include death. It includes all the changes we go through, and all the things - homes, cars, jobs - we attach too and eventually release.
In fact, it reminded me of Inside Out. (And if you haven't seen the movie, this is a bit of a spoiler.) When the main character went through something huge, something that required new tools to deal with, she ended up releasing a lot of her childhood attachments, crumbling foundations to rebuild something new and stronger. I think, as we grow and expand our experiences, we do the same, constantly. We build, redesign, tear down, rebuild, redecorate, release, rebuild… Perhaps all of us have a fantastical Escher-like construction inside to represent our most stable foundation.
So, to sum up, I've been processing loss and learning (most importantly?) there is no time-line for grief, and no exact pattern for grieving. And that loss affects more than just the relationship between me & the one who died. I've been finding a peace with a lot of changes in my life. Which, naturally, signaled an explosion of new things to process about myself.
What else I want for, with, and from my writing; the comfort of cargo pants; changing taste buds; that I have certain habits in new situations. And realizing I like my self-improvement process better than anyone else's.
Which of course led to more processing about my personal truths, perspectives, goals for the future.
Obviously, the processing, and the growing hasn't stopped. It might never. But one of the things I processed about my writing is I really like it. So much, I'm now practicing how much time to give where. Meandering? Stories? So much to say, but what do I really, really want to share? And how?
Meanwhile, here's the next newsletter.
Let's hear it for adventures, the kind we look back on with a kind of dazed and hazy memory and scratch our heads and say, "I worked through that? I so rock."
I hope you have a great month!
-lila
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