Questions are an indispensable guide in my life. Here are some of my favorites: 1. Where or in what moments do I feel most alive? Noticing this is an act of great self-loyalty. It's helpful to track your interests, eagerness, and spark and notice what's changing and what new things are hoving into view. Sometimes [...]
When I was in high school, I fell in love with the writing of Annie Dillard. I’d never read anything like her before, this combination of poetic prose and personal narrative imbued with the fervent nature-love of Thoreau and the spiritual depth and yearning of a medieval mystic. I studied her books and saw in [...]
I found a scribbled note to myself that contains a compact, effective, and encouraging philosophy. I hope it's helpful to you!
Have you ever had this experience in a work context? You’re loving, you’re enthusiastic, you’re positive and eager to help. In response, you are dismissed as a puppy, as a child, as toothless. You are subjected to condescension and disregard. Only when this becomes impossible to ignore do you reveal your incisors, and then [...]
You'll hear about the origin of this poem in the video and in the text below it. But for you dear readers of this blog, may I add two things: Living according to the Tao of Moi does not make you selfish. It makes you honest and honesty always serves everyone best. I'm wearing my [...]
(just found this on one of my many scraps of paper on which I capture uncategorized thoughts in the moment) True impoverishment is not being able to feel love, to be moved by beauty, to be roused in curiosity and eagerness to learn, to laugh for sheer amusement and delight (without a target), to give [...]
Do you ever have a day like this - when you get up late, breakfast late, lounge about doing not much, remain in your nightclothes far into the day with a feeling of delighted, shameful langour, do a puzzle, write a few things, eat irregular meals (by which I mean snack on one thing and [...]
WELCOME, my friends, to the fifth and final week of our April Poetry Celebration! This week, we hear one last round of wonderful poems from our community with many answering last week's Spark of "translation," we enjoy a bit of Q & A with Grace and Zsuzsanna from Jumping Fox Design, I share a poem [...]
WELCOME, my friends, to the fourth week of our April Poetry Celebration! This week, we go deeper into our theme of CONNECTION with a gorgeous feast of poems from our community, inspiration to participate in poetry written in other languages and the opportunity to offer your own take on an early Irish poem, a silly [...]
WELCOME, my friends, to the third week of our April Poetry Celebration! Thank you with all my heart to all of you who have been writing, sending poems, watching, commenting, liking, sharing, and cheering us all on. You are making the celebration SHINE! This week, some THIRTY POETS sent in wonderful poems and I share [...]
