The Pits

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. John Updike quoted in The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp We are at the mid-point in the 12 weeks of winter. In the six weeks leading up to the spring equinox, the opportunity is in...

The Journey Continues …

It is my conviction that slight changes in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change. Thomas Moore   Please note that the first listing at the top of the right sidebar contains the 2021 Creative Energy Report MP3 file. I invite you to listen today....

Living Life in Widening Circles

Looking at the Natural Calendar, November has us traveling inward. We are continuing the six-month process of sinking deep into our roots. The first 90 days (stretching from fall equinox to winter solstice) can be used for mind-training. In as little as15 quiet minutes a day, it becomes possible...

The Criteria of Emotional Maturity

Every act rewards itself, or in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.  Ralph Waldo Emerson October is my favorite month year after year. Being here at our 50-acre retreat tree...

Almost Twenty

Dear Readers ~ This week the story told by the nineteen-year-old closes as she prepares to turn twenty. Thank you for being here and for witnessing this one-year journey. Being the scribe for the nineteen-year-old I have learned to trust the creative process in new ways. I have gained...

Bridges to Cross

Dear Readers: We are nearing the close of this 1968 rite of passage. In this chapter, the nineteen-year-old employs the method of healing and integration that she provided for me in December 2018 as my arm healed. She looks to a time when she was an empowered/natural child. She...

Be Living Not Dying

9 Keep stretching a bow You repent of the pull, A whetted saw Goes thin and dull, Surrounded with treasure You lie ill at ease, Proud beyond measure You come to your knees: Do enough, without vying, Be living, not dying. From The Way of Life according to Lao...

The Benefit of Hiding

Dear Reader, WARNING! DO NOT read this post if you are triggered by any form of domestic violence, sexual predation, or PTSD due to personal trauma. All Readers proceed with caution. Take the best care of you.  Thank you for your witnessing heart and mind. This Rite-of-Passage story has...

Carried By Words

Dear Reader, I was mistaken … PLEASE NOTE: there is no warning with this post. Read on … This listening role that I have been given by the younger self is revealing a fascinating aspect of the creative process. As a trained artist and an intuitive painter, I allow...