In My Own Time

As I fumble around trying to find my stride mid-life, I am beginning to remember with awe and respect that leisurely automatic setting my life once had. How I used to take time like it was abundant, and how that time gave way to imagination and curiosity and restoration of the soul.

Releasing the COVID brake

“This COVID thing,” “In COVID times,” “COVID life.”  I listen to language carefully, cataloguing it. I’ve been listening lately for how people are characterizing these times of trauma, triumph, death, …

How Not To Set Resolutions: A Guide for Your Creative Self

I was recently asked how I set intentions. See, I don’t do resolutions.

The way I feel and see, resolutions are hard-edged, judgmental – likely to cause cuts and bruises.

I don’t need more of those, so I have another approach.

Intentions have an expansiveness to them, a soulfulness. I like them better, and I get to because there’s no right way to be a human.

A sign in a window reads, "NOT OPEN" in large letters, in small letters in between it reads, CLOSED

Division is a seduction

I am a divider. Not on purpose, and not because I want to break people apart. It’s just the opposite. My sovereign purpose is to inspire undivided lives. In spite …