I invite us to consider the tools we have in place when the unexpected happens. We know that out of nowhere, in the twinkling of an eye, everything can change. Let’s consider creative ways to address inevitable change with Emotional Maturity. Honing this quality of an expansive approach can...
Natural Time Management
When an Idea Rises Up to Meet the Light
Fawn at the Tree Farm, wildlife camera capture There are four more weeks of summer. There is a ripe opportunity to be fully engaged! What are you choosing as your most joyful growth for this season? Oftentimes what brings us joy and uplift gets lost in the shuffle of...
Time to Grow UP^ Looking Fear Demons in the Eye
We need to grow. Stretching and being curious allow life to expand rather than contract. If we become formulaic, or worse if we become stuck and stagnant, where are we? The choice is present in every situation. In the Dream, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 18×24″ Each year in July the moon/month...
Grow Your Capacity to Share
In this post, I emphasize one of our favorite tenets for the art/life which is that we grow together. Summer is the season to truly expand on this concept in your experience. ...
Cross Quarter You
It’s amazing what you can do by just telling and owning your own story. I shared stories in the first two posts of this still-new year. Post one. Post two. I’ve been demonstrating, in my own imperfect fashion, story-telling power. I couldn’t share either of those stories immediately. I...
Breath of the Blind Sea Turtle
Remembering that 2023 is our global Vision Quest year I remind us of the inquiries made in the previous blog post : Consider your inner strength. Consider the simple things that sustain you. Consider the brilliance of your current fondest dream. And Breathe. Breathe as if your life...
I Hold My Breath
Journal page, Drozda As the outside world grows less dependable, I keep buttressing my inside world, where people go on meaning well and surprising other people with little touches of grace. Anne Tyler I’ve been holding my breath. It’s a shocking truth and it’s still hard to...
What is the Mystery of Your Story … Do Tell?
Never sit back and feel there is little or nothing you can do to help the world situation. There is a tremendous amount you can do to help by the work you do on the inner in radiating Love and Light out to individuals, to countries, to...
The North Gate Opens: Stepping into the Mystery
End-of-Year Review THE TRUELOVE by David Whyte There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you...
It’s the Nature of Nature to GROW!
WE HAVE ENTERED THE SOUTH GATE and are moving through the 12 weeks of summer! Summer surrounds us with nature’s vitality, engagement, and creative growth. New life at my tree farm captured on the wildlife camera Into this expansive space, we discover the power of returning to the...