I think the hardest part of writing was to open my heart to share. I never thought my writing was good enough and my words would fall short and stumble beyond comprehension. I always thought that judgement would come to my doorstep and break down my door with embarrassment like the time my mother found my diary. So, I hid, and kept my writing to myself, and I didn’t even talk about what or who I was writing about.
It wasn’t until my 40’s that I began to share my writing. My father was one of the first to read one of my poems and he began to encourage me to design my first website. For years I still dragged my feet. It wasn’t until he was in hospice dying of colon cancer that I finally made that leap to put my heart and pen out into the world. Two days before he passed away and he laid in bed with his last dying breath, I brought in my laptop and shared my website design. In that moment, we were the closest we’ve ever been. I remember his smile and he raised his eyebrows as if he was saying to me, I’m proud of you. Now go out into the world and make a difference in your life and others. After he died, I wrote a prose dedicated to his life and what he meant to me. It was the first time that I heard my writing being read by someone other than myself. It left me breathlessly sad but enlightened at the same time.
From that moment on, I’ve been sharing my writing on websites, blogs, and other social media platforms. I’ve published a few books and shared in various other publications with other writers. It was if I was a bird set free from a cage that I had lived in for most of my life. I opened my wings and began to fly not knowing if I was high from this freedom or on a destination of being once again caged.
Years later, I find myself writing facing the fear of writing again with my first mental health blog about bipolar and anxiety disease. I don’t think I would have had the courage if it wasn’t for my father still whispering encouragement in my ear, the support and faith of a few friends on and offline, and the unconditional love and guiding light from my son.
My gratitude runs deep and my passion for writing undying. I feel that if I can continue to make one difference in someone’s life, then I have accomplished and once again overcome my greatest fear of all… sharing my thoughts through love, light, and the darkness that I have lived through in my life.
My journey has led me here, opening all that I am in my deepest of days and nights in this thing we call life. Thank you for walking beside me and believing in me when I often do not believe in myself.
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
~ Ansel Adams
I am a lover of unspoken language.
When all else fails
and my tongue cannot capture
the words to convey,
I find the language of my heart in pen…
I hope you will leave here feeling inspirited and inspired, and finding love and peace along your journey…
Sincere appreciation for visiting!
Sending you love, light and peace to your heart…
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“Writing is very much a playground – an artistic playground…”
~ Shania Twain
“Life is like a balloon. If you never yourself go, you’ll never know how far you can rise.”
~ Artist Unknown
“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”
~ A.P.J. Kaplan
FeatherMoon Poetry 
Hello there! I just wanted to say that you have an incredible blog, and that I find your content insightful, refreshing, and apt!
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I am grateful for your thoughts and inspiration. Thank you for reading and I look forward to our journey together. Much peace and light to you ~*
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You’re quite welcome! 😀
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Hello! I have shared with you the Inner Peace award, which was also shared with me. No further action is necessary on your part, You are a Blessing to me and I am Happy to let you know in this small way. Should you be interested in passing the award on to others, you shall find the information for doing so on my post at : http://booknvolume.com/2014/02/16/inner-peace-inspiration-and-shepherds-pie/
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As always, it is my sincerest pleasure and I am honored by your kindness…
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thank you my friend for sharing the article and happy greetings of friendship and hopefully, when we share it with sincerity. Greetings from Gede Prama 🙂
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Indeed we do and I’m blessed to share in our thoughts as we walk in the same path of love and light… Much peace to you~*
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Hi! I nominated you for the Blog of the Year 2013 Award. Please get the badge at http://wp.me/p32YrK-1cL and get more info. Have a fantastic New Year, Blessings, belsbror
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As always, it is my sincerest pleasure and I am honored by your kindness and blessings…
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I am glad you accepted. 🙂
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I love your blog so much. I wish I had the talent to write, as you do. Keep on inspiring each and every one of us that are lucky enough to have found you here.
Wild Thang aka Tammy 🙂
Only good things will come to you. I hope you aren’t sick. I hope you just enjoy sharing your talent with the rest of us.
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You’ve always been so caring and loving and I cannot tell you how much this means to me. I am healing and knowing your are here with me gives me much inspiration and love. Thank you, my friend 🙂
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Everything I say is just the truth. I’m glad to have you as a friend and I think it’s really awesome that we have been able to inspire one another. We walk this journey together. I wish nothing but the best for you my dear friend. Healing vibes being sent right over. Looking forward to your next post. Keep up the good work. You do know, I’m sure, that you not only inspire me, you inspire everyone that reads your fine work.
Peace and Hugs my dear friend,
Wild Thang aka Tammy 🙂
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Much peace and light to you as well… It’s a pleasure to share the same light with you~*
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Thank you, my friend. I, also, find it a pleasure to be sharing the same light with you! You’re what I call a true inspiration. Lucky to be walking the journey with you.
Peace and light always!
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Hi Feathermoon, I have found your site to be an amazing place and have appreciated it for what it has given me as an enjoyable, learning and heartfelt place. For that I would like to present you with the Versatile Bloggers Award. To accept this award please click on my link in this comment and go to the Awards post on the Home page. At the bottom of the post it will give you instructions on how to accept the award. I have checked to make sure you did not have instructions that you were no longer accepting awards but if I have missed this please accept my apologies. Otherwise thank you again for the sharing of your site, I follow it as I like and relate to the gift of your writing very much. Namaste
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Heartfelt appreciation for the award you have bestowed upon me. It’s such a pleasure to walk beside you on this wondrous journey. Much peace and light to your heart~*
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I really enjoyed reading your poetry and was stirred by the truth on each line. I will be back for more. Wonderful!! Many thanks.
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Many thanks for visiting… I look forward to our days to come ~
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You have such wonderful flow of thoughts
I have enjoyed wandering within them
Take Care…
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maryrose
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Many thanks for sharing.
Let’s wander and flow together
Embracing and sharing our beauty with the universe.
Peace and light to you…
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I often ask people to tell me who they are without telling me what they do. Most are unable, you have done so beautifully here!
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Smiling with gratitude and admiration ~
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Beautiful…and I love the simplicity! Very pleased to meet you! tomas ♥
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It is my pleasure as well. Much peace and light to you…
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Thank you…
I find myself inspired when I visit you 🙂
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Very nice and interesting blog! Thanks for following “Known is a drop, Unknown is an Ocean”. 🙂
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Many thanks as we flow and discover in this vast ocean together ~
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