allowing vs trying
I am learning and relearning and more deeply experiencing the dance between allowing and striving when I try, I suck. when I allow… (here’s a quick time lapse of a first layer being allowed in a dimly lighted room) Share This:
Tag Archives: self coaching
finding things, part 2
there are lost parts of ourselves, that are not really lost– just waiting for us to return to them somehow. I have always been an artist. Sometimes I make art, other times I collect images, experiences, sensory deliciousness, discomfort, witness, and hold it, store it, like medicine in a bag. There is a rhythm to… Read More
finding things
I wrote this two years ago for my other blog, and found it today. Dear self, You may not know it right now, but you are doing important things. I know, it may feel like somehow you got on the wrong bus, or that you are being mistaken for someone else with different skills and different goals… Read More
Painting a new way of being
So, I am taking an intuitive painting e-course by Flora Bowley. The course is officially over, but I am working on week 4 of 5 content, since my time is not wide open. I have painted alone, in the morning, in the evening, with Della and Doug, with Della, with Della next to me, with… Read More
Make it easy
I just painted for the second day in a row. 2 songs worth *therapy* my stuff is all set out for a course I am taking, so it is easy to just do a little– let this be a lesson to me: MAKE IT EASY it does not all have to be all or… Read More
mindful writing, February 9th sanity walk
the way sumac seeds collect in yesterday’s footprints the way the pines stand, two by two and the way their branches tangle the way the snow falls on my face, and fogs the field into soft edges the way I forget to look up, as I watch my feet for snow hidden stumblings the way… Read More
bow wave
there is a moment in conjuring where a blissful AH HA! comes — sometimes quietly, sometimes with a roar, but there is this moment, when ahhhhhhhhh an IDEA, an offering, a theme, a project, emerges from the primordial muck and wow it is so cool and then, facebook and my inbox bring me messages of… Read More
Noticing
Today, in the midst of the flurry, a few perfect moments The dishes done,sink clear,bed made,floor vacuumed….sitting down, admiring the feeling of space… Della dancing in the living room… Goosebumps after an uninterrupted cool shower after a very hot walk… Such pleasure and beauty in these ordinary moments, so grateful to have noticed Share This:
suspension
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
freedom
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