Welcome to 2024! Click here or on the photo to watch the introduction to the Creative Energy Levels vlog: Let’s set the tone for this year from a Creative Energy standpoint. If we consider the options available everything comes down to how we talk to ourselves and...
Voluntary Simplicity
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...
Summer Solstice and the Opening of the South Gate
Circadian Circle Floor Cloth, Drozda, mixed media, 6×6′, in use since 1990 It’s exciting and energizing to recognize the shift in focus that takes place as each of the four gates of the natural year opens. Here, at Summer Solstice, we enter the most active quarter. Observe nature to...
Be a True Fool
stock photo While walking the dogs last week I looked up to see a pair of Bald Eagles circle high overhead and then, flying toward one another, they join, clasping talons! From that amazement, they begin a free fall including a triple somersault! It happens fast yet it feels...
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...
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...
Who Gets Your Trust?
Happy New Trust Moon! Welcome to August and our cross-quarter marker. We are halfway through the summer. The summer moon/months are the most expansive time of the natural year. Starts on August 17! Any approach that renews your self-confidence and keeps you moving forward is worth cultivating. The...