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Inspiration from the Sands
January 2, 2022
I am having trouble absorbing the end of 2021 and embracing 2022 after our family trip to Oregon. More than an easel for nature’s artistry, one of the beaches we visited in Oregon strikes me as inspiration for how to live in these transformational times, how to enter 2022 with strength.read more
A Holiday Atmosphere
December 4, 2021
If you could create a national holiday, what would it be and why? That was one of the questions I posed to a group of dear friends who gathered on zoom during Thanksgiving weekend. The question seemed like a playful and creative break from the heaviness and intensity of our world right now. Welcome in the moment. But maybe it’s more important than that.read more
A Deathbed Reclamation
November 1, 2021
Today 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. Yet it gave me great joy and filled me with awe.read more
Fierce
October 6, 2021
I think some older, fiercer being is emerging in me. I’m not sure what She will have me do in the coming months, but I want to tell you the story in case someone like her is emerging in you too. While She has been muttering to me for nearly a year, Her voice has most strongly come through in my intuitive art over the past few weeks.read more
Return of the Wind
September 5, 2021
Aaah…the wind has returned. My shoulders relax, my mind stills. I realize then how still it’s been here for weeks. And how that’s contributed to my feeling of unease this summer. A bit about what the wind means to me and how it contributes to my sense of wellbeing.read more
Earth Prayers
August 7, 2021
When I walk in natural places I love, I offer my respect, love and thanks with a song, a tonal chant expressing my feelings, made up on the spot. I will continue this practice, but I am excited about another kind of offering I’ve been making the past few weeks—earth altars. (Not quite the right name, but I haven’t come up with a better one.) Here is how I make them, and what I have learned.read more
Rest and Revisit
June 9, 2021
Because of travel, family visits and making the transition back from a year of pandemic, I plan to take a little summer break from writing my monthly blog and newsletters, probably until September. But check out this blog from July 2016, Fabric, Evolution and Raspberries. The prose poem in this blog still makes me chuckle, and I hope it will tickle you too.read more
Advice from the Cards, One Year Later
May 10, 2021
Last May, when we were three months into the pandemic, I did a reading to see what advice the tarot had for us at that time. I reread that blog post today, and was surprised to find that it still feels relevant and true today. Yet I was curious to see what the cards would recommend now, a year later, as the pandemic has eased and we are beginning to emerge from our isolation. Here are the questions, the cards and my interpretations.read more
Post-vaccination Pondering (in Limerick form)
April 10, 2021
What are you planning to keep or toss once you can venture out into the world? Here are four limericks I've written responding to that question.read more
Sweet Spot
March 11, 2021
“Sweet spot” popped up in my reading several times last week. Bothered by a feeling that the expression had become weak from overuse, I spent a few minutes pondering what “sweet spot” meant to me. Here is the result. What are your sweet spots?read more
A Trail Through the Murk
February 10, 2021
I’m feeling murky. Both listless and restless, and emotionally flat. Not bored—my days are full—but blank: uninspired and uninspiring. Wordless. So this month I offer to you what has amused me today. Feeling pale and dry, I am revisiting some old intuitive paintings of mine (all from 2014), undersea scenes full of color. Their weirdness is cheering me up and bringing a little relief to my shapelessness.read more
The Crone and the Master Speak
January 12, 2021
National events distracted me today from my usual blog subject matter. So I sought guidance from the tarot. Specifically, I wanted to hear from the Tarot of the Crone, because the Crone’s voice feels ancient, female, earthy-- a no-nonsense truth-teller. And from the Master’s voice of the Osho Zen Tarot, full of breath, reminding me of wider forces, the bigger picture. Here are their responses, as interpreted by my intuition.read more
Embracing Solstice
December 14, 2020
Winter Solstice is tugging at me this year, perhaps because so much of this long year has been about pause, and full of death and the unknown. I yearn for new life. How might I come to trust that new life is growing amidst all that is broken and unknown in my life (and in the life of the country)?read more
A Visual Stroll
November 14, 2020
A visual journey: using art to describe the current days, including suggestions about how to cope. What soul food is helping you stay balanced amidst the chaos?read more
Fruit and Death
October 16, 2020
Fruit and death. The scent of autumn, and what comes to mind as I clear out the house we’ve lived in for nearly 30 years. Finding things long forgotten, savoring the memories, letting so many treasures go. Filled with grief for the passing and gratitude for the abundance. Mother Nature provides a respite for me from all this emotion, jumping in the leaves. And a drawing suggests that life may be more complex and multilayered than we expect.read more
Regarding Baskets
September 17, 2020
I’ve always loved baskets, ever since I was a kid. Over the years my appreciation has grown. In this blog I consider why, and state firmly that it is NOT trivial to create little slices of beauty, to infuse love into “ordinary” things and places.read more
Remembering August 22, 1970
August 17, 2020
Fifty years ago this week my mom nearly died in a terrorist bombing in St. Paul. Just weeks before my senior year in high school. I want to tell the story, to mark the anniversary, to make sense of it after so many years. But I’m not sure I can make sense of it.read more
In the Stream Together
July 18, 2020
I’ve been remembering my friend who died last July, just after her 66th birthday. Our connection was an uncanny one, with twists and turns. In this blog I talk about our 2 years in high school, 40 years apart and then reconnecting 8 years before she died.read more
Brain Jam, Spilled Emotion and a Butterfly
June 22, 2020
My mind is clogged with words and ideas: news reports and commentary; essays and articles about policing, racism and white privilege; related podcasts and seminars; lists of resources; urgent calls for action. When I look up from the computer to try to clear my overstuffed head, feelings of anxiety, anger and powerlessness remain. That’s when I turn to artmaking. Or to the wonder of nature.read more
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“There is a place where words are born of silence,
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.”
— Rumi
I will ponder here what whispers to me in the silence. I’d love for you to whisper back; maybe we will all get clearer—or maybe, like in the old kids’ game of “telephone” we will end up somewhere else entirely (which would be fun too)
Recently on Whisperings
Inspiration from the Sands
01/02/2022
A Holiday Atmosphere
12/04/2021
A Deathbed Reclamation
11/01/2021
Fierce
10/06/2021
Return of the Wind
09/05/2021
Earth Prayers
08/07/2021
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Reflections and News
My Reflections and News contain personal reflections, poems, quotations, photos, a bit of my artwork, links to things I love, and news and information about my intuitive guidance practice.
Wanna Color? Meditative Fun, mid January 2022
Winter Whispers: January 2022 Reflections and News
In Between: December Reflections and News
Eclipse Adventure: November Reflections and News
October Miscellany: October Reflections and News
A Little Love: September Reflections and News
Art, Life and the Moon: August Reflections and News
The Whirl of Late Spring: May Reflections and News
Foolish: April Reflections and News
Venturing Forth in Early Spring: March Reflections and News
For the Love of Flowers: February Reflections and News
A Fresh Year: January Reflections and News
Time for some Coloring? Meditative Fun, mid January
Fire and Ice: December Reflections and News
You Don't Have To: November Reflections and News
We Are Inevitable: late October Reflections and News
Harvesting Hope? early October Reflections and News
Soothing Nerves and Looking Inside: September Reflections and News
Holding it All: August Reflections and News
Thunder Moon: July Reflections and News
Communion: June Reflections and News
Mush and Tears: May Reflections and News
Wanna Color? Some Meditative Fun
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