by Anne Peek | Jul 13, 2026 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, beauty, creativity, gratitude, harmony, hope, imagination, laughter, life-giving, modern life, nature, overwhelm, play, poetry, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, seasons, self-care, self-reflection, surprise, transformation, wonder, writing
Well, this summer has been quite a jumble Every day there’s more reason to grumble Lists of things that need doing Most of which I’m eschewing S’pose my failing attempts keep me humble. Shall I mention appointments with docs? Quite a few, but no terrible shocks As my...
by Anne Peek | May 16, 2026 | affinity, aging, amusement, body wisdom, childhood, connection, expansion, foolish, freedom, harmony, heart, imagination, joy, life-giving, listening, play, possibilities, rejuvenation, Sacred Eccentricity, self-care, senses, spirit, surprise, trickster
Even though most of you know I am a playful person, I haven’t been feeling very playful these past months. But Thursday at my physical therapy appointment I unexpectedly amused myself (and my PT). Let me back up. When you were a kid did you like to swing your legs?...
by Anne Peek | Jan 18, 2026 | affinity, anger, artistic expression, balance, beauty, breath, bully, conflict, connection, creativity, dreams, expansion, freedom, gratitude, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, life-giving, modern life, overwhelm, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, self-reflection, soul, spirit, tenderness, transformation, values, vulnerability
We—most of us—are having to learn (or hone our ability) to hold it all. Not necessarily because we want to, but because we know we must. In order to be fully alive and for our lives to have meaning. And so we aren’t knocked flat or just go to sleep. I am...
by Anne Peek | Dec 18, 2025 | affinity, balance, beauty, breath, connection, darkness, death, dreams, earth, expansion, growth, harmony, heart, holidays, hope, imagination, life-giving, light, modern life, nature, noise, possibilities, rejuvenation, seasons, self-care, self-reflection, soul, vision, winter solstice, wonder
Here we are at a cosmic portal: the dark of the moon, at the darkest time of the year, about to embark on the longest night. And the darkness around us on the world scene is deep, as deep as most of us have seen in our lifetime. Yet, we also know...
by Anne Peek | Jul 24, 2025 | affinity, aging, ambiguity, artistic expression, balance, breath, communication, connection, creativity, earth, expansion, heart, imagination, life-giving, listening, modern life, mystery, overwhelm, practice, self-care, spirit, vulnerability, words
So much swirling these days, within me as much as without. (Aging is not fun! Except sometimes it is.) Change is happening so incessantly and so fast that I’m forced to practice literally touching the earth, the natural world, in order to counteract the sense that the...
by Anne Peek | Jun 24, 2025 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, balance, communication, connection, creativity, darkness, death, expansion, foolish, freedom, gratitude, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, joy, laughter, life-giving, light, modern life, nature, play, poetry, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, spirit, Uncategorized, wonder, words
I believe that when we create, no matter what it is—a meal, a song, a garden, an altar space, a drawing, a knitted scarf, a haiku—we align with, and amplify, the creative life/love energy of our planet. Especially when our creation also feeds our wonder,...