by Anne Peek | Mar 30, 2025 | affinity, amusement, animals, babies, balance, breath, communication, connection, counterculture, expansion, freedom, friendship, gratitude, harmony, heart, hope, joy, laughter, life-giving, light, modern life, overwhelm, poetry, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, soul, stories, surprise, tenderness, transformation, values, women, wonder
At Albany Bulb with Elaine Side by side on a log by the bay. Sunlight. Unleashed dogs, prancing through surf, almost exploding out of their skins with perfect happiness. Dogs who don’t know about fired park rangers, or canceled health research, or tariff wars,...
by Anne Peek | Mar 12, 2024 | affinity, ambiguity, archetypes, balance, body wisdom, connection, counterculture, earth, expansion, freedom, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, joy, life-giving, light, listening, magic, memoir, mind, modern life, mystery, possibilities, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, self-reflection, senses, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, tears, transformation, wonder
In times like these, it’s easy to give in to despair and hopelessness. In addition to witnessing and speaking out against all that is heartbreaking and unjust, maybe we also need to share experiences that contradict the cultural story, foster hope, and reveal the...
by Anne Peek | Apr 1, 2022 | affinity, artistic expression, body wisdom, clearing, conflict, connection, counterculture, cranky, creativity, dreams, earth, expansion, foolish, freedom, growth, heart, intuition, joy, life-giving, light, listening, modern life, nature, possibilities, rejuvenation, Sacred Eccentricity, self-reflection, shadow, shoulds, soul, spirit, transformation, values, women, wonder
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows, or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. Ray Bradbury The...
by Anne Peek | Apr 27, 2017 | affinity, amusement, balance, childhood, communication, connection, counterculture, creativity, fool, foolish, imagination, joy, laughter, life-giving, play, possibilities, shoulds, trickster, words
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein Acting silly is one of the...
“There is a place where words are born of silence,
