Family
Acclimate
A Term of Endearment post with whiffs of ritual and how to help multi-dimensionally on difficult days. My mom is moving. Moved. The last few days consisted of…
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Category: Spiritual Mechanics
Coaching
Valuing your values – a mini workshop in a post
Many moons ago I crewed for a personal development coach in Hawaii and both coasts. I used to help usher folks across beds of hot coals and jump…
Creativity
On making love, not war, and the silent majority
When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…
Creativity
A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy
Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too. Art, music, poetry, and stories…
History
Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to verify that…
Mommess
practice makes a practice
Doing things and making things makes me feel alive. So to practice feeling alive, I need to be in motion, or at least making something for the sake…
Culture
Generational Curse Breaking for an Everyday Lady
Disclaimer: in order to do this, you don’t actually have to be a lady. I am case in point. I’m also not recommending you believe in curses per…
Mommess
Life is a feeling
One of my teachers said the title of this post with great authority, and it gave me pause. How could life be a feeling, I wondered, isn’t life…
Creativity
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating expanses. And…
Creativity
Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…
Culture
The Helpers
On building trust and hope in a world we cannot control. Mr. Rogers said, when you are in crisis, look for the helpers. This is a good strategy…
Mommess
Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile
The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…