Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:40:07 -0500 From: Cybele10@AOL.COM Subject: EXERCISE: Playtime With Julia This is from "Vein of Gold": Try it, it's fun, part of Julia Cameron's umpteen-step "Creative Recovery Program"... Task: Name Five Secret Selves: " My beloved friend Laura has a secret self I have nicknamed Vampy Vanessa. ...Laura is a Kindergarten Teacher and her daytime persona radiates bright goodwill. However, she is also a tall, willowy blonde and her night-time clothes reflect Vampy Vanessa's fondness for something that suits a real femme fatale: black lace, the gleam of something gold... Vampy Vanessa is as much a part of my beloved friend as her sugar-and-spice Miss Very Nice teacher's self. If Laura doesn't let Vampy Vanessa go out dancing, Miss Very Nice tends to get a little bit grumpy... As we acknowledge and accept our secret selves, our decisions can be formed more holistically. Our lives take on the shapes and colors of our multi-faceted personality..." Name Five Secret Selves... What we are going for here is catching sight of ourselves in some of the guises we may not often wear...my friend poet James Nave' found that he had a traveler self, an American Marco Polo who had him crossing the continent with thumb outstretched. That self is with him still, years later, as he logs his frequent flyer miles for trips to exotic locales.." Alison's List: 1. Free Janine: Has waist length hair and is wearing a broomstick skirt, reads tarot, runes, the stars, even the TV Guide....Hugs mannikins in department Stores when they look sad. 2. North Star Kait: Forest Ranger, Aviatrix, in a bomber jacket and Timberlands, walking purposefully through one woods or another, has an excellent sense of direction, talks just enough, carries warm brandy and good instincts to those in need as well. 3. Denise the Drudge: Surly and exhausted. What happens to Girls Who Don't Take Their Birth Control. 4. Persephone: Intense, bookish, runs on intellectual stimulation and caffeine alone. Is often wasting away physically, she is proving she doesn't need a body at all. 5. ...? Love, Alison