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Category: Spirtuality

Body & Health

Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk

If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 4 min read

Creativity

On The Cutting Room Floor

This piece is titled “The Cutting Room” which is sooo META Here’s the story: The artwork was “done” and I submitted photos for a gallery show (the tan…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 2 min read

when you come down to it, the only ground you stand on is the ground you stand on
Mommess

As on the right, so on the left

where to rest and love when the world seems full of fight. Polarities are tough. I’m learning this to the nth degree these days. I’m talking the opposites…

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

Duality: a coin parse

Inner Struggle, and a Flip Side of Self-identity About a year ago I went through a tough time. While reaching out, one of my more perceptive friends said…

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

Terms of Endearment – Imbue & Bodhi

This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and insight. It’s…

March 26, 2025August 5, 2025 · 5 min read

“Fielding Pi” by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. Digital Symbol Work comprised of digital markup fingerpainting on original photo.
Coaching

Open Hope

Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It’s a thing of the child…

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 · 2 min read

Mommess

Beginner’s Mind & Happier Times

WELCOME TO MY FIRST QUOTE-A-RAMA It’s a relief to know that there was never a moment in my life when everything was perfect. There is no idyllic past…

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Rebellion | emergence from dark into light

Why new voices from the subconscious matter to all of us. I admire teenagers and young people who rail against every day culture and bring new music and…

February 18, 2025February 20, 2025 · 5 min read

Body & Health

Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode

I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 · 3 min read

Body & Health

A Prompt for Nature Knowledge

Some days I walk through the woods and wonder “what is nature telling me today?” The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old needles fall off,…

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 · 1 min read

Creativity

Making an oracle by machine

Get a reading of sorts at bottom of this page. Randomness is the name, and divination is the game. ~Playing The Fool1 I just added a Random Post…

January 25, 2025February 11, 2025 · 3 min read

What are your Grace Goals
Coaching

What are your Grace Goals today?

It’s Sunday morning in America1 and the texts from family & friends are coming in. “How can we get through?”“I’m freaking out inside.”“It’s like the last day before…

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 · 2 min read

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