For all of you out there who have hung out with me on Fridays for nearly five years now, thank you.
I have a question for you… Ever wonder why I keep writing to y’all every week… or what writing has done and continues to do for me today?
For a long time, I thought it was something other people did, people with polished ideas who had studied literature or fine arts. You know, the ones with perfect grammar, and a clear plan for their writing.
I didn’t understand back when my words began to find their way to blank pages, that writing often begins in quite the opposite place. It began in the mess of my life when there was nothing but questions. My voice needed an outlet, and speaking my truth those many decades ago, was not an option, so I wrote.
For me, writing began as a way to listen, mostly to myself, but sometimes to the voice of the one I was writing too (even if they never heard my words). Sometimes I wrote to God, Great Spirit, or to the mean ones in my world who I couldn’t understand.
Writing gave me a place to put the thoughts I couldn’t always speak out loud, the feelings that needed more room than ordinary conversations could hold, and a place to “feel” the questions that kept circling back, no matter how many times I tried to move on.
At first, I didn’t write because I had answers to those recycling questions, mean people, or catastrophic life events. I wrote because I was searching for answers to them.
I wrote my way through grief and through the ensuing confusion. I wrote my way through the strange in-between places where the person I was, no longer fit in her skin, and I couldn’t yet see the person I was meant to be.
I wrote, and still do, because life keeps handing me moments I don’t know how to understand. Writing gives me a place to let them wait, and breathe while I do, until a reason or an answer begins to take shape.
Writing has become a kind of companion; not always a gentle one, not always an easy one to hang out with, but it has always kept me honest. Then, somewhere along the way, writing stopped being something I do and has become a part of how I live.
It has become my prayer, my practice, my mirror, my medicine, and sometimes even, my source of laughter. It helps me notice the sacred hiding in the ordinary, the wisdom tucked inside each challenge that pops up, and the humor that somehow survives even in the middle of my chaos.
That is part of why I keep showing up here each Friday.
These Food for Thoughts have become more than a weekly post to y’all. They have become a conversation, a breadcrumb trail, a gathering place for curiosity, honesty, memories, meaning, and the occasional nudge from my very own Scribe of Silly when I let things get too serious.
Nearly five years of Fridays, five years of asking, listening, shaping, sharing, and wondering if something I wrote might meet one of you at the exact time you needed the words I wrote. That possibility still humbles me.
Here is what I have learned… writing is not only for those who call themselves writers. It is for anyone who chooses to pick up a pen, pad, or keyboard and let it rip; spill the beans, tell tall tales, or cry in the shadow of your own words.
Writing is for anyone who has ever needed to make sense of a moment, bless a memory, untangle a feeling, honor a loss, celebrate a joy, or hear the quiet voice of their own wisdom rising from beneath the noise of their everyday life.
And maybe that is why I keep writing.
Not because I have everything figured out, but because writing keeps teaching me how to pay attention. It keeps inviting me to become more honest, more vulnerable, more curious, and more willing to be surprised by the words that roll off my fingertips.
However, wherever you read it, I am glad you are here.
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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