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  • From the Cocoon!

    The Artist’s Way, while it is inspiring for Art, it is also bringing forth an artful self.  It is finding the dark spots where we lost the art of living, the art of being, the art of individuality, where we… Continue reading

  • Keep Me Down

    As I did my yoga after work, a frivolous task I labeled it, since I opted to do this instead of a domestic chore or something of a higher priority, I just went ahead and took the liberties of time… Continue reading

  • Paying Attention to each part of me.

    In the Sun Magazine they have a section where they give a word or two and you write about it. This month it was called Paying Attention.  “Whenever my husband talks to his mother, brother or sister – on the… Continue reading

  • Growing Lifeless.

    It seems that there is a side of change that continues to catch me off guard, while I eagerly lean towards growth and transformation, I fail to see I am outgrowing friends.   My flippant quote that I clung to… Continue reading

  • Cultivate the Art of Play

    In reading chapter 5 in The Artist’s Way, Recovering A Sense of Possibility, she speaks of being self-destructive, and yet she isn’t talking about what we usually think of self-destructive behavior.   We usually think of drugs, alcohol, abusive type… Continue reading

  • Half Dead

    There are two ways to look at relationships and what is defined as kind or unconditional will depend on which side you are standing upon.   Most of my old relationships had the relationship as the ruler and I as… Continue reading

  • The Responsibility lies within you.

    In the past week, I have heard two different ladies tell me that God wants them to be kind to people who are not kind to them…that being kind to unkind people is pleasing to God.   Both say, it… Continue reading

  • My own formation.

    In the past six years I have been learning new software, my body functions the same, it just responds differently.   My arms move, my mouth speaks, my brain thinks yet they are doing things completely in a new way.  … Continue reading

  • The soul that lies beneath.

    Julia Cameron writes in The Artist’s Way…   ”Conditioned as we are to accept other people’s definition of us, this emerging individuality can seem to us like a self-will run riot.  It is not. The snowflake pattern of your soul… Continue reading

  • When I am 80.

    My writing assignment was to write a letter from my eight-year-old self to my adult self, and I sat there blank.  I could not figure out what the little girl needed to tell me.   So, I went and did… Continue reading