{"id":479,"date":"2010-10-01T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2018-09-17T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:37:14","slug":"the-adventures-of-isabelle-journey-to-orphalese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of Isabelle: Journey to Orphalese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_485\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-cave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\"size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"The Cave\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-cave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Post Created: 9.28.10)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I have checked in. So much has been happening on the road of living my Vision. I had imagined that the pace of my work would slow down this\u00a0summer\u00a0allowing me time to work on my non-fiction book about women\u00a0 living their visions and finish a draft of <strong>Book II<\/strong> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NjgL_VxK-IY\">The Adventures of Isabelle<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 As life happens this did not come to pass.\u00a0 I kept waiting for an opening\u00a0to allow me the space to focus on the writing, but it never came. I am grateful that work wise I had\u00a0the busiest summer that I&#8217;ve had since launching <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\">Cutts Consulting<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But, when\u00a0I found the end of summer approaching with no real progress made on the books I decided I had to create my own writing retreat, so I headed off to Negril, Jamaica and am staying in one of my favorite places in the world, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockhouse.com\/escape\/\"><strong>The Rock House<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am now in the transition phase from work to writing.\u00a0 I am decompressing and gearing up to write. I&#8217;m in the spot, in an\u00a0island hideaway in the West Indies, and working a bit on some upcoming Vision Quest Retreats events for a couple of days before I attempt my plan;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>wake up and swim<\/li>\n<li>meditate<\/li>\n<li>write in the days (and at night if I like)<\/li>\n<li>paint in the evenings<\/li>\n<li>eat good food &amp; practice my yoga<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Door.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" title=\"The Door\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Door.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>I will keep you posted in this chapter of <strong>The Vision Quest Chronicles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To participate in the non-fiction book about\u00a0women living their visions, by answering\u00a0 a brief survey and telling us your story please visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=owJw5CixCl3pXrJR0lPIEg_3d_3d\">The Vision Quest Survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much continued success &amp; well-being,<\/p>\n<p>Nicole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Post Created: 9.28.10) It&#8217;s been a long time since I have checked in. So much has been happening on the road of living my Vision. I had imagined that the pace of my work would slow down this\u00a0summer\u00a0allowing me time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}