To Awaken the Muse

Of late my Muse seems to have fallen asleep on the job. I have done
nothing to try to awaken him. I have alternately beaten myself up for not writing or just ignored the whole thing. This week I have decided to take matters in hand, prime the pump, just do it.
So I harked back to a book that my friend Kathy Crook recommended to me. It was Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. My smug response was to not take her suggestion because I was so sure that I did not need any help. Within a few days a book arrived in the mail from David O'Hare, Lisa's former husband. With a sense of LIFE saying "Got cha." I opened the package and took out Writing Down the Bones! I recalled Mary Palumbo, my Jungian dream therapist, telling me that when anything came up doubled to pay close attention and I did.
The book had a lot to say to me. It was where I first read the idea that "I" was not the writer. Natalie told me that the writer lived within. I was the vehicle through which the writer within could express. She also gave me a lot of useful tools (which I had thought I could easily do without). I have decided to use one of the tools to attempt to awaken the Muse. If I would not be the vehicle nothing of the writer within would come forth.
One of the tools was to open a book and put my finger on a line of text and then use that text as a writing exercise. Not surprisingly a few minutes ago I was looking at some stuff on Facebook and Mal was suggesting that we go get the book nearest to us, turn to page 56, move down to line five and put that in our status. I went to my library and chose a book at the end of the shelf that was easiest to reach. I followed the rules of her exercise and came up with a line of poetry which read - "Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam....." Here was one of Natalie's exercises coming at me out of the blue. (the past two days of gorgeous weather I have been sitting outside in a rocker with my head thrown back simply contemplating the blueness of the sky).
I now have a title for the next blog. In the exercise I will not TRY to write well. I will simply write whatever comes up in relation to 'trying thin wings in the warm beam.' I look forward to it. What will come "out of the blue?" Will it awaken the Muse? Tune in tomorrow to the next episode!!!!!