Searching for Words in a Fog

by | Jan 21, 2023 | agenda, amusement, artistic expression, balance, childhood, communication, creativity, fool, freedom, imagination, inner critic, laughter, life-giving, mind, play, poetry, possibilities, resistance, seasons, self-care, shoulds, stories, Uncategorized, words, writing

There once was a woman of age Who struggled to honor a page With some nourishing words Ones that sang, flew like birds, But alas! She was never a sage. (And such hopes are so often a cage.)   Plus it’s winter, it’s cold and it’s dark, And her mind must be locked...

Images of Insecurity

by | Sep 27, 2019 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, balance, body wisdom, clearing, conflict, creativity, freedom, heart, imagination, inner critic, intuition, light, listening, mind, noise, play, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, shadow, stories, transformation, Uncategorized, vulnerability

Until a few days ago I was at a retreat center in upstate New York. Twenty women and the facilitator, Jalaja Bonheim, came together for a week, experiencing the powerful geometry of the circle, allowing sacred space and silence to fortify us and help us move from...

Fragile

by | Feb 5, 2019 | artistic expression, balance, body wisdom, childhood, communication, conflict, connection, creativity, crying, darkness, heart, inner critic, joy, messages, self-care, shoulds, subpersonalities, tears, tenderness, the feminine, Uncategorized, vulnerability

I’ve been feeling small the last few days. Fragile. Young. Sensitive. I want to be held, snuggled, tended. And I’m tired. And weepy. I’m fighting off a skin infection and I’ve had a busy couple months—that must be it. Why must I always search for a reasonable...

Don’t Bore the Gods!

by | Feb 14, 2018 | artistic expression, clearing, conflict, connection, cranky, creativity, foolish, freedom, growth, harmony, heart, hope, inner critic, life-giving, light, listening, magic, messages, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, shoulds, spirit, stories, transformation, vision

I had a humbling Aha! moment the other day. Humbling but also freeing. Tom and I have been reading a series of young adult novels, The Lost Years of Merlin. The five book series, which imagine Merlin from about age 9 to adulthood, are fun, full of enchanted forests,...

Freedom

by | Apr 7, 2016 | artistic expression, body wisdom, childhood, clearing, connection, creativity, growth, inner critic, life-giving, listening, play, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, resistance, Sacred Eccentricity, shoulds, spirit, transformation, vision, wildness

I stumbled across a poem today while doing quite unrelated things. The title made me curious so I read it. Instantly my belly became fluttery, and at the same time I felt profoundly sad. I read it again. Here is the poem. It is by Naomi Shahib Nye and is called How to...

Endless Possibilities—Too Much?

by | Apr 18, 2015 | amusement, artistic expression, body wisdom, connection, creativity, growth, imagination, inner critic, life-giving, listening, messages, possibilities, transformation, wildness, wonder

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.                                                 Robert Louis Stevenson, from A Child’s Garden of Verses  My mother used to perkily quote this to us kids when I was growing up. I...