It's easy to get cranky and lose all sense of astonishment at the marvelous fact that you have eyes and hands and get to use computers that do so much and have discovered a promising community through Steemit. Raving is as easy and beneficial as brushing teeth. Doing it will lift your spirits and remind you of your life's perfect fineness.
Here's a bit of a recent rave of mine:
"Raving about the garter snakes sleeping under sheets of metal in the sun. Their dark bodies like maps of mountain paths under whisps and stalks of pressed grass. One by one, they awake and move gorgeously. Raving that I get to be the one to disturb them! Raving that I now know how to keep lots of snakes near my garden!"
Can you feel how the last two sentences amp up in hand clapping delight?
Rave writing is about climbing up a ladder of genuine excitement you build by focusing on the most uplifting true details about your real life. That is the point. Not to create beautiful writing, though you sometimes will, not to be a good person by being humble and grateful. Raving is a celebration you jump start by acknowledging how good it feels to let yourself dwell on how much you like your pen or neighbor or anything at all. Anything to start.
"Raving that, on the topic of my house, I am in ecstasy. A year ago, this pavilion was crossed fingers and now I take it for granted with plans to evolve! When it drizzles and the air is full of water just over there, making a delicate white noise and softening the whole world, I remember to look up and take it in, to drink long. Then the sun grows up out of the uncut meadow, its red layer of pigweed flowers, its snowing, its gold mohawk. My olive Sloggers on the rusty Persian rug."
There is enough beauty just outside, just inside, in the feel of your own fingertips against your eyelids. Let tears form. Clap hands. Jump for joy, even if only on paper. Mean it sincerely, but don't inject darkness for balance or gravitas. You can't climb up the ladder if you keep going back down.
I was introduced to the practice of raving by Lola Jones through her spiritual book Things Are Going Great in My Absence, available through her website at www.DivineOpenings.com which I mention in order to direct credit where it is due. Raving is a practice Lola recommends twice daily. There is even a closed Facebook group called The Daily Rave where members share their raves and celebrate them.
I'd rather you rave here, on Steemit, where your positivity will shine like a beacon, making us all just a little bit happier.