M3.24.BP7

“The deep roots never doubt the spring will come.“

-Marty Rubin

Bloom Where you Are Planted

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Hope you all are doing wonderfully. Spring is finally here and it is beautiful! There are so many flowers blooming everywhere bursting along the sidewalks and freeways, bringing a much needed pop of color to the (currently) otherwise green landscape.

I am happy to report, my husband I made it out to Anza-Borrego State Park about a week ago and loved it. We’ve been making a trip out there every year for the past few years and it’s always so much fun. The drive was beautiful, there were plenty of lush meadows and then of course the desert flowers. We brought our dog Chompers out with us and he had a blast! Half the fun was having him there with us.

March Review

🦋 Writing Journey

Natural beauty aside, things have been hard going for me here in my little writing studio. I feel I am going through a bit of a slump. These things happen. For the past few years I have been paying closer attention to my natural patterns and have noticed that spring is an interesting season for me. My productivity seems to drop off and then pick up again in the summer.

I don’t know if it has something to do with the time change (spring forward) or just the overall change in seasons and everything that goes along with that but something happens to me in spring that makes it hard to do much of anything. It’s quite a tedious and frustrating thing.

For the past few days I have been feeling bad about not having the energy to get myself to do much of anything. Every day feels harder and harder to get through. Today I looked back at my spring entries from last year and re-read my post for June. It was encouraging (sort of) to read that in fact it had been hard going last spring as well.

Now the question is how do combat this spring ennui?

If you have any tips for getting over a slump please share!

🦋 Reading Adventures

On the positive side of things, reading has been going well. Amid my hard-won writing progress it has been fun to finish a couple of books.

–Finished Books–

•Daddy’s Girls – Danielle Steel•

This turned out to be a delightful read. Light, delightful, and with a happy ending. This was my first Danielle Steel novel and I’m very happy I decided to pick it up. The novel reads kind of like a hallmark movie. To some that may be a turn off but I gotta say it was just so lovely to read something uplifting. I’ve really been needing that recently and this book was there for me and for that I say, thank you Danielle Steel. Plus I am so amazed by this woman. She has written about 200 books in her lifetime! Just amazing.

The Lost Bookshop – Evie Woods

This was another really lovely book that just warmed my heart. It has some heavy content regarding domestic abuse but Evie Woods does a wonderful job of bringing her characters to a triumphant end with grace. It centered around three different point of view characters. My favorite one was Opaline, the historical character. And who doesn’t love a story with a mysterious bookshop?

April Plans

April is right around the corner and I hope to turn a corner myself as the month rolls in. I am not sure yet how I will do this but I don’t want to be stuck in a funk forever. I want to do what I can to help myself move forward. Nothing lasts forever and sometimes it’s hard to recognize our negative feelings for the unreal thing that they are. Just a film coating our eyes.

🦋 Reading

On the reading front I am in the middle of Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, so I hope to finish that and then we will see what comes next. At the end of April Lucy Gilmore’s new novel The Library of Borrowed Hearts should come out so I’m very likely to pick that up but between TJ Klune and Lucy Gilmore life is still a mystery.

🦋 Writing

I want to figure out the best way to share some of my work. I need to spend more time with my website to determine the best way to post and share so that I am not constantly moving things around. Then plainly said I want to write.

TTFN

(Ta Ta For Now)

Alrighty then, well that is all for now, really happy you stopped by! Until next time!!

xoxo, 

Angelica Sophia