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...
by Anne Peek | Sep 30, 2016 | affinity, amusement, animals, artistic expression, beauty, bully, communication, conflict, connection, cranky, creativity, imagination, laughter, possibilities, resistance, shadow, subpersonalities
Several days ago, on a cool rainy afternoon up on the north shore of Lake Superior I sat at a cabin table, enjoying the music of the surf and doodling idly. At one point I looked at my drawing in surprise. When my drawing or painting looks like a person or animal, I...
by Anne Peek | Jul 2, 2016 | body wisdom, childhood, clearing, connection, dreams, earth, gardens, growth, holidays, intuition, life-giving, messages, nature, possibilities, resistance, senses, the feminine, transformation, Uncategorized, vision, women
I recently had an odd dream. In the dream I enter a woman’s public rest room. There I find a woman bent over her baby at a changing table. With calm determination she is trying to clean up piles and smears of pudding-like poop. The baby seems contented, and there is...