Sparkle: Manifesting Something New

This post replaces the one that was lost. Amazing to find it. I was in my little self about it for a bit, but no more. This is the first post about Sparkle.

                           

               HELLO HELLO. IS ANYBODY THERE?

I haven't written in this blog for several years. Life has taken a different course. Very different.
This new year, I would like to manifest something I've been brewing for quite awhile. I'm interested in making an altered book, an informal book, maybe a prototype, and the subject is SPARKLE, how to know when you've got it, how you lose it and how to get it back.

This blog will be more interactive. I'm interested in how this works for you. Maybe you wonder what SPARKLE is. I think it covers what you are feeling when you're feeling your best, when you surprise yourself about how excited you are about what you're doing, life, and how that differs from the way you feel the rest of the time. Maybe you call it something else.

If you are still out there at your old email address and you would like to join me on this journey, please respond. OR if you rather, contact me at babschwartz68@gmail.com.

What I Mean When I Talk About Sparkle

There are moments in life that vibrate with an energetic aliveness I don't ordinarily have, a feeling of delight, joy, of being in sync with myself in a way that goes beyond everydayness. In that moment I feel a shivery joyful excitement I want to last forever. Professor Sean Kelly writes about "a time when you really feel alive, when your past, your present and your future make sense together as the unity they have always promised to be." When I talk about Sparkle, this is what I'm talking about.

You may have another name for it. Perhaps you are teaching and for a time you and your students are all engaged in the same special moment with each other and you sense everyone feels that.  Or perhaps you are a musician and there is a glorious moment when the music plays you or you're a writer and...well, how does it go for you? It can come up in so many ways and so many guises. Today would you be willing to share with me how it comes to you, how you experience it, what you call it?

I hope you'll join me on this journey of exploration.

If you can't post here or rather not, please email your thoughts to me at babschwartz68@gmail.com.

Barbara