by Anne Peek | Dec 4, 2021 | affinity, amusement, balance, beauty, childhood, communication, connection, creativity, dreams, earth, expansion, friendship, holidays, hope, imagination, laughter, life-giving, modern life, possibilities, rejuvenation, seasons, spirit, transformation, Uncategorized, values, vision, wonder
If you could create a national holiday, what would it be and why? That was one of the questions I posed to a group of dear friends who gathered on zoom during Thanksgiving weekend. The question seemed like a playful and creative break from the heaviness and intensity...
by Anne Peek | Jun 9, 2021 | agenda, amusement, balance, communication, imagination, laughter, life-giving, modern life, nature, pandemic, poetry, seasons, self-care, Uncategorized, writing
Because of travel, family visits and making the transition back from a year of pandemic, I plan to take a little summer break from writing my monthly blog and newsletters, probably until September. I discovered that except for a two-month summer break in 2017,...
by Anne Peek | Feb 10, 2021 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, grumpy, heart, imagination, laughter, life-giving, modern life, nature, pandemic, play, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, self-reflection, Uncategorized, vulnerability, words
The pleasant shifts in the air I felt a couple weeks ago seem to have fled in recent days. Quite patient until now, today I’m tired of pandemic precautions. Longing for travel. Tired of winter. Maybe I am undone because the vaccine and the increasing sunlight...
by Anne Peek | Oct 16, 2020 | aging, ambiguity, amusement, artistic expression, autumn, balance, clearing, crying, darkness, expansion, freedom, growth, home, life-giving, listening, nature, pandemic, play, poetry, possibilities, rejuvenation, seasons, self-care, self-reflection, senses, shadow, surprise, tears, Uncategorized
Autumn Haiku Sprawled on sunny ground Crunchy leaves and dusty grass Scent of fruit and death AEP 10/9/20 Fruit and death. The scent of autumn, and what comes to mind as I clear out the house we’ve lived in for nearly 30 years. Finding things long forgotten,...
by Anne Peek | Jan 23, 2020 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, body wisdom, communication, connection, creativity, expansion, freedom, heart, imagination, intuition, laughter, life-giving, listening, magic, play, possibilities, soul, spirit, tenderness, Uncategorized
Holly, a dear friend of mine, died last summer. She was a writer and a creative soul in many ways, including artmaking of all kinds. She was an imaginative free spirit who appreciated the unconventional. So her art was usually quirky. Self-taught, she didn’t often...
by Anne Peek | Nov 25, 2019 | amusement, connection, gardens, life-giving, nature, poetry, possibilities, the feminine, Uncategorized, wildness, women, words, writing
In numerous cultures around the world bees were sacred, associated with the Divine Feminine. Archeologists have found images of bees, bee priestesses and bee goddesses dating back millennia. This came to mind in September, when at the women’s workshop I attended on...