journey

  • I have listened.

    I had a wise voice talk to me, reminding me of the lay of the land or the overview of us all talking on the blogs, and that there is room for everyone. Her message struck me as totally on… Continue reading

  • With me.

    In Chapter 8, Recovering a Sense of Strength (in The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron), she writes.   “One of the most difficult tasks an artist must face is the primal one; Artistic Survival. All artist must learn the art… Continue reading

  • The Artist Way.

    December 1, 2004, I began writing Morning Pages, a tool in the book, “The Artist Way,” A Course in Discovering and Recovering your Creative Self, by Julia Cameron. Here Julia explains the Morning Pages. “There is no wrong way to… Continue reading

  • Highest Good of All.

    The Will “The Spiritual Will is not like the ego’s understanding of will as ‘will power’, which means emotional force with clenched teeth of exertion and increased emotionality. The ego-driven will takes energy and is taxing. It could actually be… Continue reading

  • Until she can find her own.

    The hardest part of being a mom is when your child takes an exit that you didn’t see coming and they seem to disappear from the usual landscape and it leaves you separated. And I am not even sure what… Continue reading

  • Using Words.

    I went to my first night of the Writers on Location series held in the little white church on Finlandia’s campus. The topic this week was singer/songwriters. Eric Koskinen and Mike LaBeau entertained us and shared their experience about putting… Continue reading

  • A Course In Weight Loss

    I am browsing through “A Course in Weight Loss” by Marianne Williamson, some parts I gloss over, and others parts catch my attention. This book and Geneen Roth’s “Woman, Food, and God” both are searching beneath the food and looking… Continue reading

  • The Limits of My Self.

    What I am learning as I go along, is that there are people I will agree with, people I will be drawn to, and others that will stir up my strong held beliefs, it seems that the ones that frustrate… Continue reading

  • Devils in Disguise.

    I am finally seeing how literally birds of a feather flock together, clinging to the same version of heaven and hell, love and fear, good and evil, that depending upon your level of awareness and type of energy you carry,… Continue reading

  • The Journey….

    In Kim Rosen’s book, “Saved by a Poem” she writes, “ I discovered how the separating lines of culture and age can dissolve in the presence of a poem the first time I went to Africa. In Kenya, at the… Continue reading