Awkward Meeting (writing prompt) I know I’m fidgeting. I can’t stop messing with my skirt, which is the wrong way to blend in. I change from tugging at the seam of my pocket to shifting back and forth on my feet. The woman in front of me seems to be agonizing over some sort… Continue reading Awkward Meeting
Author: jilllorraine
Old Art – Curled Dragon
Going back through old artwork and trying to sort, arrange, curate what I’ve done over the last fifteen years or so. It’s amazing to see how far I’ve come, so I’m going to be posting the good, the bad & the ugly here on a regular basis. When I moved my site to new… Continue reading Old Art – Curled Dragon
The Elf and the Box
“I’m not what you were expecting, heh?” The toad-like creature croaked from the corner of the dark room, where she was hunched in a chair by the cold hearth. “You thought elves were elegant creatures with lithe, delicate forms?” Lia said nothing, staring from the doorway with wide eyes. “You’re an elf?” “The stories have… Continue reading The Elf and the Box
Stop Being So Kind To Yourself
When I invite people to my house, inevitably I find myself saying something like “excuse the mess.” And just as inevitably, the typical response from my guest is, “of course you have a mess, you have three children.” And it is a very kind response. If I were to take that response to heart, and… Continue reading Stop Being So Kind To Yourself
You Are Not Alone
Lately I’ve been noticing a very common thread running through the people I meet. We’re all lonely. Loneliness isn’t the absence of people in your life, it’s the absence of connection. It is feeling as though no one sees you for who you really are. No one understands you. No one is looking out for… Continue reading You Are Not Alone
Trust Your Gut
It is clear there is something very wrong with you. There must be, or you wouldn’t have gotten so lost. You wouldn’t be challenging what you’ve been told. You wouldn’t have so many follow-up questions to the simplistic answers you’ve been given. You wouldn’t keep turning around and wondering what exists between the lines,… Continue reading Trust Your Gut
Get Lost
Sometimes to find your way you have to get lost. It’s more than tossing aside the map. There are some things that you need to intentionally disconnect from. Things that need to end up dropped along the wandering road you find yourself on – burdens that are too heavy to take with you if you… Continue reading Get Lost
The Choice to Wander
Being lost, wandering through life, is not a particularly good experience. It’s something we usually avoid thinking about, just as we dodge the inevitable questions around the holiday dinner table. “So, what are you going to do with your life?” “When are you going to finally get a real job?” Wandering can bring with it… Continue reading The Choice to Wander
Make Your Unacceptable Dreams Come True
I made this for my creative community – to explain what it means to bravely own your own dreams, and it turned in to something of a video manifesto. We need to focus more on a dreams if we want to transform the world for good. (If you’ve been looking for an open, generous, empowering… Continue reading Make Your Unacceptable Dreams Come True
The Map You Were Given
Do you feel lost in the world? I have. For most of my life. So I looked for help. So much self-help. I have probably tried every way to figure out a clear destination to go to, but every time I try I end up back where I started. Wandering. So, I developed a theory.… Continue reading The Map You Were Given