Rocks of Old
Mind, Body and Soul
Past, Present and Future
The High-lights, Low-lights and the Story In-Between
Personal stories and reflections that weave spirituality and daily living.
Writing
Hobson's Haiku's
An Ode to my first creative writing mentors.
Fairy Sync: A Thought Theory for improved synchronization between a soul and the living Spirit.
Choice & Desire: take decisive action while wait'n for discernment.
Afghanistan 2010 Blog:
Ancestry and Ode to Mom
Books, Music, Podcasts and Videos in a learning library.
Snapshots and tales from my cycling adventures.
Snippets of Joy
A few of my favorite things
RocasdeAntano: Who am I? Three Daily Wins (3DW)
A system for nurturing mind, body, and soul—small victories that build a balanced life.
Letters to Dad: A Memoir of my Soul
Stories, reflections and daily living insights learned from the Father, my father and through answering the call to arms for my country. A memoir of post traumatic growth, through synchronization of soul and Spirit.
Connecting the Dots
Journey Ahead
On the way home from a war zone in 2010, I knew my experience was not a typical Air Force deployment experiences. The 26 weeks I spent overseas would stretch my intellect, stoke my imagination and leave me with a life-changing world view. Prior to arriving home, I had conceived of an idea to write a book, with one chapter for each week of deployment. In it, I would write what really happened that week, and compare what I wrote to family and friends each week. Frankly, on that rotator over the Atlantic, I thought I had it all figured out...the book would be about me, my dad, and the military. Truly, without the lesson's learned from my dad and from my military career (24 years at that time), I would never have been able to do what I had just accomplished. The best way I can describe this feeling is that I was on cloud nine because I had just completed the hardest thing I had ever done in my life, by far, and I had survived, and thrived professionally. My body was a bit worse for the wear, but I thought I could handle that. Unfortunately, when I arrived home, I received the news that my beloved father, Vernon Albert Rockswold had passed suddenly, 24 hours before my arrival in my home town, Reno, NV.
It's now 15 years later and the stories are "written". First draft and ugly kind of writing. A girl who went into engineering so she didn't have to write, type of writing. Some are Independent stories that stand on their own merit, some newsletter like, some blog like, and some ready for publication--or at least polished as far as I can get it with my current creative writing skill set.
The journey ahead is about writing Letters to Dad, while instilling the wisdom that my Dad passed on to me, as planned, but with a twist. Dad was always right, but I never knew why. I don't think he knew why. He would answer my philosophical questions like "Why didn't you call the cops that night when I did x, y & z?", with "I just knew". When pressed about how he knew, or why he did something, like quitting drinking before I was born, he would say "God did it". Letters to Dad is about the things that God did for me, as well as how the military defined a way of life that made me not only a functional human being, but one that excelled at everything she did. It is also about I used my drive, dedication and learned skills to a cause higher than myself. Unfortunately, it is also about my lack of reflection, rest and self care that lead to a declined physical state that, seriously, I just kept ignoring. It's about how that ignorance caught up to me at the end of the working portion of my life.
After retiring four years ago, I embraced a new rhythm of life focused on nurturing mind, body, and soul daily. This new balance shapes my memoir’s heart. In retirement, I've more fully experienced the joy of synchronicity between my soul and the living Spirit. This is because I created a daily activity tracking system with an easy accountability tracking tool, that I call 3DW (3 Daily Wins). Now, I am able to plan the day what I do, rather than track the things that I did. Now, I shall begin living the life I was destined by God to live.
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I am thinking about writing a newsletter or blog, but I often find it difficult to predict when my Board Squirrels might want to share their thoughts, so I don’t have a specific schedule or plan for publishing something like that. However, I do I look forward to sharing the stories I’m creating for Letters to Dad. Will you sign up to accompany me and discover what unfolds with my writing, reflecting, and my daily efforts to connect my soul to the living Spirit. By achieving 3 small wins each day, I aspire to live my life guided by the wisdom of my Father, my body, and the living Spirit, instead of solely following my own path.