by Anne Peek | 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...
by Anne Peek | Jun 28, 2022 | agenda, anger, archetypes, balance, body wisdom, breath, communication, conflict, connection, cranky, creativity, darkness, earth, expansion, hope, imagination, intuition, life-giving, listening, messages, modern life, noise, overwhelm, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, self-reflection, shadow, soul, spirit, tarot, the feminine, transformation, Uncategorized, values, vision, vulnerability, women
I’m angry. You know why. I bet you’re angry too. Plenty of reasons in the news, and more every day. Hard NOT to be angry about something these days. My anger is deep. Feels centuries old. I think it IS centuries old. At times my fury creates hostile, venomous...
by Anne Peek | Apr 14, 2018 | balance, beauty, body wisdom, breath, conflict, connection, cranky, darkness, earth, growth, grumpy, harmony, hope, joy, nature, poetry, possibilities, resistance, seasons, self-care, senses, shoulds, spring, writing
I want to post a blog touching on one of my usual themes—wonder, creativity, humor—but today those feel a little scarce. Well, I do feel wonder as I sit today in this blizzard, the worst I’ve seen in many years. And in mid-April yet. I know a few of you are living...
by Anne Peek | Nov 18, 2017 | affinity, agenda, autumn, balance, body wisdom, connection, darkness, dreams, earth, holidays, light, music, nature, possibilities, resistance, seasons, self-care, shadow, shoulds, silence, winter solstice
Dusk descends early on this cold, gray cloudy November day. All day I needed the lamplight next to my chair to read, and now I spread the wool throw over me. Halloween/Samhain/All Soul’s Day ushered in the dark time, a reminder of death and ancestors, of mystery and...
by Anne Peek | Oct 18, 2017 | ambiguity, artistic expression, balance, beauty, communication, connection, creativity, imagination, mind, possibilities, resistance, vision, wonder
When doodling to relax the other night, I stumbled into drawing an image that I noticed makes sense the way I drew it and also upside down. Then I discovered more images in it when I turned the paper other ways. One side up it looks to me like a clownish person...
by Anne Peek | Nov 29, 2016 | artistic expression, balance, breath, clearing, communication, connection, darkness, growth, imagination, life-giving, possibilities, rejuvenation, resistance, shadow, stories, tarot, transformation, vision
barn’s burnt down now I can see the moon Masahide The image of fiery destruction did not faze the group of six sitting around my dining room table. For several years my husband and I have had four dear friends over for a turkey...