for the first time in 3 years, I gave my weight over to the water a crystal clear lake in New Hampshire, surrounded by hillsides- no motors, no houses, just quiet. I turned my back on the shore and felt myself just held there, not stiffly or motionless, not at all– fluid, dynamic, buoyed…suspended…as weightless… Read More
what if, for this moment, we consider what freedom can mean don’t stop at the first thing that comes to mind, keep digging. take this personally. what could freedom look like to you? freedom from limiting or energy consuming habits or relationships? from negative self talk? from procrastination? from saying “I can’t”? from taking the… Read More
I invite you to join me these next few days, within all the fireworks and hoopla, to witness moments of quiet in between in between the parties or the driving or the have-tos and shoulds and oughts… in between the getting there and getting back after the big booming crashes, as the ashes fall slowly… Read More
yesterday was a heavy day, a day of sinking, of energy pulling down and in it was a day where I had a hard time accessing my lightness my yeses my connections motion I finally lay down for an hour, head buzzing, wishing I could sleep. the heavy also meant cold, and a walk had… Read More
Home. In the space between that word and these, maybe images came up, maybe memories, maybe expectations, maybe longing, maybe sadness, maybe joy, maybe love, maybe heartbreak, maybe hope…. I have made home in a small cabin, in a beautiful open house, in a cow barn, in a maple tree. I have made home in… Read More
Loving this definition of “strength”: A strength is “an activity that makes you feel strong.” It is an activity where the doing of it invigorates you. Before you do it, you find yourself instinctively looking forward to it. While you are doing it you don’t struggle to concentrate, but instead you become so immersed that… Read More
100 Breaths: Experience the power of micro-meditation Meditation can seem mystifying and mystical… The benefits unattainable or something that can only be attained after years of practice and patience and… well…real life (for many of us) does not include easy access to that sort of space and time. In the same way as nearly almost… Read More
This today from a blog I loved and lost, and found again. “The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have used and thought about with the utmost seriousness. The sense of the verb “to imagine” contains the full richness of the verb… Read More
Here I am, listening to Miles Davis, trying to suss out a tangle of notes from a client project… If you were to look from the outside, you’d see me hunched (horribly) over my keyboard, tea gone cold in my mug, my brain following paths looking for the ease that indicates the ah ha that… Read More
No, not the big transformations that come with a big whooshing kaboom No, not the kind that shake the foundation, shift the tectonic plates, re-order the landscape, knock us reeling…. No, not the CHANGES that come from the big stuff, the overwhelming stuff, even the overwhelmingly great stuff…. This is about pocket sized change. Little… Read More
