by Anne Peek | Nov 14, 2023 | affinity, animals, artistic expression, balance, beauty, breath, communication, connection, creativity, darkness, dreams, earth, expansion, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, life-giving, light, listening, memoir, messages, modern life, mystery, nature, overwhelm, possibilities, rejuvenation, shadow, spirit, stories, surprise, transformation, vision, war, women, wonder
In the last few weeks I’ve come across a surprising amount of fascinating information: —a story about how bison on ancestral lands made discoveries that fulfilled an ancient prophecy; —research documenting how dying people in hospice care often experience dreams and...
by Anne Peek | Jun 14, 2023 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, balance, beauty, communication, connection, darkness, expansion, freedom, friendship, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, joy, laughter, life-giving, listening, memoir, modern life, mystery, play, possibilities, rejuvenation, Sacred Eccentricity, self-care, self-reflection, spirit, stories, surprise, the feminine, transformation, trickster, Uncategorized, women
Why I Became a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant Just As I Began my Legal Career Because it was the 1980 State Fair and the pleasant woman in the grandstand offered a free facial. Because I was 27 and had never had a facial. Because I was 27, had never worn makeup, and...
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 | Oct 23, 2022 | affinity, connection, creativity, expansion, Halloween, intuition, joy, life-giving, listening, memories and mementos, messages, mystery, possibilities, spirit, stories, surprise, tarot, trickster, wonder
I hung up the phone one October day in 1976 feeling both dubious and intrigued. Flattered to be asked, I had agreed to tell fortunes at my brother’s Halloween party since I loved Halloween almost as much as I loved him. But sometimes Tom’s idea of fun and my own...
by Anne Peek | Aug 27, 2022 | affinity, animals, archetypes, artistic expression, childhood, communication, connection, creativity, earth, expansion, intuition, messages, nature, possibilities, self-reflection, senses, shadow, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, the feminine, transformation, Uncategorized, vision, wildness, wonder
Snakes appear often in my art, and have for years. Snake also emerged as my animal/symbol for 2022. Is there a message here? Over millennia, earth-honoring cultures around the globe have carved snakes on rock art and painted them on pottery. Because of their ability...
by Anne Peek | Nov 1, 2021 | affinity, archetypes, autumn, beauty, childhood, connection, death, earth, expansion, Halloween, harmony, heart, intuition, joy, life-giving, magic, memoir, nature, possibilities, senses, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, transformation, Uncategorized, wildness, wonder
Tomorrow is November 2, the culmination of an auspicious period for honoring the dead. It is also my dad’s 101st birthday. So I’m going to tell you a story about my dad, a kind of ghost story because it took place at his death. On May 8, 2008 I got a call at 2 am...