Very few people manage to be islands of isolation. It takes a great deal of personal effort, skill, and geography to pull that off. Not just because you need to be able to live off the grid, live off the land, and be fully self-sufficient in everything you could possibly need, but because we are…
I saw a tattoo today that was drawn to appear as if the skin were peeling away from a woman’s shoulder and underneath were written words. And it really looked like her story was written under her skin. We are the stories we tell ourselves, not just the stories we tell to each other. We…
My friends and I sometimes joke about the men in our lives and how they measure on the present scale. You know, for a holiday do they get you a power tool that is something they actually want, do they forget altogether, do they get something that makes no sense, do they do a ‘Hail…
Life is a daily delight/onslaught of input. From the time we awake to the time we sleep our senses intake information at a high rate of speed. And our brains seek to make meaning from it and to navigate it using the maps of relationships, needs, wants, requirements, and survival to build it into something…
Nothing is more heart wrenching than leaving something undone until it is too late. If there is something you really want to do, don’t worry about what other people will think, don’t worry about how to get it done, get rid of the box you’ve been thinking in and go out and do it. 10…
Clients I work with all want to know, “What’s my purpose in life?” and “Why am I here?”. Sometimes the answers are really exciting and ‘sexy’ like, “You’re here to help heal small children” or “You’re here to learn this major lesson about love and family” or “You’re here to work in foreign countries bringing…
In writing about sacred space, I’ve been thinking about religious spaces. And there are a lot of religious spaces to consider. Just the number of temples in India boggles the mind, let alone the shrines, ashrams, and wandering mystics. Or think about the number of churches in the Bible Belt in the states. Heck, where…
I hear people talk about listening being an art form or a lost art. *sigh* I don’t actually see it as an art so much as a necessity of life. Kinda like looking where you walk. You can not do that and stub your toe, fall and break a bone, go off steep cliffs and…
I know quite a few people in my life that are either self-employed or are trying to start a business or just get a new job, something that makes sense for their life and that they can at least be satisfied with and be able to pay the bills. However, they all struggle constantly and…
I’ve heard that other writers and artists suffer through this as well. There’s a point, somewhere in the middle of a project, where it feels like you’ve totally failed, you’re a failure, this is never going to work, you should scrap it and start over, you’re never going to make deadline, what was I thinking…