Everyday Creation
This show has to do with different kinds of creation: human, divine, and a third kind that connects the two. Our human creativity is easy to talk about because clearly we're prolific creators. We make music, we write, we cook; we establish businesses, we design gardens, we invent things. The list goes on and on. Another kind of creation is divine. We feel its presence when, for example, we contemplate birth, death, our life purpose, or have a quiet realization that there's something bigger than us. The third kind is perhaps a little more difficult to grasp and yet, with a little practice, it's easy to put into action. This is the personal power each of us has to direct our thoughts, words and actions every day toward what we want in our life and world, rather than what we don't want.
This sounds heavier than it is. For me, this show is an acknowledgment that while we're all here to learn and grow and do our best, there's still plenty of opportunity to relax, laugh, love, and enjoy this playground we call life. So my hope is that you'll get some enjoyment and illumination out of these episodes. Here you'll find interviews with delightfully creative individuals; short stories about some who have passed away; and essays about personal power.
I'm Kate Jones, host and creator of Everyday Creation. Thank you for following my show.
Everyday Creation
Always a Writer at Heart
Patricia Falvey had a successful 30-year career in accounting, yet what she really wanted was to become a full-time writer. After taking a leap of faith to pursue her dream, she's happier and already has had five books published: "The Yellow House," "The Linen Queen," "The Girls of Ennismore," "The Titanic Sisters," and her latest, "The Famine Orphans." All five novels have a connection to Ireland, where she lived with her grandmother until she was about 8.
This episode is an excerpt from a longer interview. To hear more, go to the full interview titled "Author Patricia Falvey on Being Brave, Resilient, and Focused on Your Dream." To listen to Falvey's descriptions of her historical novels, you can go to Episode 117 titled "Five Books and Counting: the Novels of Patricia Falvey."
Two other excerpts will be published later this week: "Goodness, Resilience and Paying it Forward" and "The Courage to Pursue Your Second Act."
To learn more about Falvey's books, visit patriciafalveybooks.com. And if you read one or all, please write a review.
This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Audible, iHeart and Spotify.
Patricia:
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Writing goes way, way back for me when
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I was a very little girl, about 4
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or 5 years old. I never had any
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trouble going to bed because I used to
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tell myself serialized stories,
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and I couldn't wait to go to bed
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to find out what happened next. I was
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always,
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always interested in writing.
Kate:
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You would be lying
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in bed as a little girl thinking
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stories in your head or actually telling them to yourself?
Patricia:
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Telling myself the story of the
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little girl and what she was doing and
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what her adventures were and what was happening
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next and what friends she met and all
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that stuff. Yeah. I was having
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a good old time in my head.
Kate:
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That is so charming.
Patricia:
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So I was born to do this anyway.
Kate:
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Yes.
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You write historical fiction novels. So
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why that
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particular genre?
Patricia:
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Don't know. I've always been interested
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in history.
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I always liked history. I don't know.
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Because to me, they were stories.
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You know, they are stories.
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Well, first of all,
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the connection with Ireland is still very big
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for me. And I think it goes back
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to that point at which I always said
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if I were ever to write a memoir,
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I might start it with, "I was 8
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years old when the mother came and stole
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me"
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because
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that is really what happened. I was pulled
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away
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from the only place I knew, the only
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quasi mother that I knew. And
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to this day, I still
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have that thing. It's a lot better now
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because I've spent a lot more time over
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there and so forth. But it
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was that rupture that just never seemed to
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to heal. And in a way, my writing
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about Ireland is part of channeling that to
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kind of
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reconnect
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with my own history and my family's history,
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Irish history. That's what I'm drawn to.
