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 the feelings that result. I’m well […]
Voluntary Simplicity
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 witness the burgeoning activity, growth, and […]
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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 like slow motion … they release […]
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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 wrap my head around. Off and […]
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BE Brilliant … A New Trail Unfolds
The moon/month of June carries the keyword of Brilliance. Moonrise on Lake Smith, Drozda (c) I send you all the best as you discover the ways in which joyfulness and peace come forward supporting you to shine bright. Every June the opportunity to spiral UP^ arrives like a seed climbing a trellis. You are […]
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The Nature of Nature
Over the past decade stewarding 50 acres of land in the Virginia Piedmont, BD, and I have learned a bit about the timbering process. We have also witnessed, up close and in a sober and reverential way, the ability of Mother Earth to do everything in her power to reclaim damaged land after clear-cut logging […]
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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 finding, even if only for 15 […]
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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. Make a note in your calendar […]
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The Glory of Friendship
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Dozens of warm eggs are placed […]
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The Natural Rhythm of a Day
Dear Readers ~ I, and the nineteen-year-old girl, appreciate your eye, your heart, and your comments. If you are new to this blog I invite you to circle around to the beginning chapter. To recap; this is a story of recovery and discovery which comes forward as part of my healing from a traumatic injury […]