Slice Ah-has for 2025
- I had to purposefully focus on not filling Slices with political complaints, heartache and negativity. Every day, Slicing was a quest in finding the positive, the energizing, the hopeful. And that was good for my heart.
- Reading and commenting on your Slices is joyful - your stories, your words, your modeling - has been especially important to me this year.
- I still am not sharing my site with anyone. I believe I share this ah-ha every year, so here’s thinking about what 2026 might hold :)
- I keep a note on my laptop with links to my favorite posts I’ve read; with words you’ve used that cajole me; ideas for future writing; forms of poetry to use. Thank you for building my writing toolkit.
- Repeated from every year: reading your comments fills me up and reminds me that writers need feedback, and in classrooms, this truth is one we need to figure out (more peer feedback! figuring out AI feedback! community feedback! power of partnerships!).
- Writing every day is a lift. AND writing every day is using a muscle that matters to my coaching work. I am ending the month grateful for the strength and momentum gained in this month.
What are YOU learning about yourself and your writing life this month?
You have some excellent reflections. (The negativity one hits home!) I hope I am as discerning when I sit down to reflect. Last year I vowed to post my slices both on here and on facebook, to help hold me accountable to write them. I’ve continued that with the Tuesday slicing and with this year’s March slices. (I will admit, some of the writing I’m doing is ONLY for myself, so I don’t post it anywhere.) I hope you are able to find places to share your writing. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a brave writer you are, Linda, to share your Slices with the world (and also, to hold some for yourself, too). I am also motivated to keep this going on Tuesday, too (since April 1 is on a Tuesday, if feels extra easy to keep the momentum going!).
DeleteYou remind me that it's time to start looking back. Having a month full of positive slices is a gift to yourself. Asking ChatGPT for some feedback with a directed prompt is a sure way to get some positive reactions.
ReplyDeleteTerje, it wasn't til I read your comment that I thought that I might be able to ask ChatGPT for some feedback on MY writing... am I ready for that??!!
DeleteI need to follow your technique for reading posts. I could not agree with you more about the importance of feedback.
ReplyDeleteI love comments here on my posts, so it feels extra motivating to get to 3, 4, 5 other Slicers every day.
DeleteI appreciated reading these reflections. I also purposefully filled slices with things other than the realities of our disastrous current political moment, however much it's on my mind and however much I'm trying to take action outside of the space of slicing. It is a discipline to find the positive and lean into the hopeful, and this was a good opportunity to practice that.
ReplyDeleteYes - I feel like I can SAY "hope is a discipline" and "hope is a muscle" - and yet - I'm so so so ANGRY. OK, let's help each other keep breathing through it. We got this, Elisabeth. The only way forward is through... (another "wise saying" I'm secretly cursing!).
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