the value of boredom

March 14, 2025
I just returned from a three-day trip to Bacalar, Mexico. Bacalar is a short flight from Mexico City, in the southern part of the country, and we ...
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expansion and loss

October 11, 2024
Life has been challenging in numerous ways this summer and fall, and one of the themes I've been navigating is that of loss. I know so many ...
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persistence

October 19, 2023
I'm digging into my next book—an exploration of a feminine spiritual path and how that supports us in living a more sustainable and fulfilled ...
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freedom is an inside job

September 5, 2019
Remembering that freedom is an inside job will serve us well on our creative journey. Too often we forget this fact and expect that the freedom we seek ...
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awakening

March 23, 2018
"The experience of the beautiful...is the invocation of a potentially whole and holy order of things, wherever it may be."   ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer
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after a long absence...

March 21, 2018
New things are stirring. I feel my creative compass shifting ever so slowly from the identity of artist to the calling of a writer, and a deep desire to express beauty and truth into the world through the intellect has taken root. Of course one does not cease being an artist, and these stirrings are […]
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quote

September 2, 2013
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." --Leonardo da Vinci
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