by Samantha Wallen | Sep 27, 2016 | On Writing, Poems
Each time there is a crack and something breaks in, there is a gush of aliveness. I cry for what I’ve been missing and didn’t even know was gone. I am working in the subtle layers, the aspects of my subconscious mind stream that aren’t so clear, perceptible, in my...
by Samantha Wallen | Sep 26, 2016 | On Writing
Risk is a word I’ve looked up numerous times because it is a word I want to get to know better, from the inside. I know that in order to live the big, full life I want, and to feel fully alive, I have to get intimate with risk. My etymological dictionary says, “the...
by Samantha Wallen | Mar 8, 2016 | On Writing
Welcome to the Whimsical Word—a place where you don’t have to know what you’re doing when you write, in fact it’s better if you don’t. To be whimsical is to change, to be unpredictable, and full of whims, or “sudden ideas or turns of the mind.” Have you ever written...
by Samantha Wallen | Jun 23, 2015 | On Writing
What’s your favorite lie? What’s the thing you repeatedly tell yourself about why you don’t exercise, haven’t had that difficult conversation, made the change, or achieved the goal you set for yourself long ago? What’s the story that keeps your happiness just out of...
by Samantha Wallen | Dec 11, 2014 | On Writing
What if everything you want and need is right in front of you, but you just can’t see it? What if creating the life you want is as simple as seeing who you are, who you ‘ve always been, and becoming more of that because it actually is who you long to be? I just woke...
by Samantha Wallen | Nov 6, 2014 | On Writing
This morning I played, on repeat, the gospel song, “Lord, Don’t Move That Mountain,” sung by Mahailia Jackson. I turned the volume way up and sang the chorus as loud as my off-key voice would go, “Lord, don’t move that mountain, just give me the strength to climb…” I...
