Hello, my friend. It’s good of you to “come over” to see me here. Your company is cherished and deeply welcome. Please imagine me now, opening the green, wooden door and beckoning you inside. In our increasingly digitalized and decentralized world, I feel more and more that this site is my online home. Here, I [...]
After many decades of studying Irish proverbs, they have become good friends whose voices speak to me with kindness, with sly wit, and with graceful intelligence. They take the long view. Here, at the beginning of the year with a million hopes, desires, and goals swirling in our minds and the kind of excitement [...]
You’ve had this experience, I’m sure. You want to do something, create something, or try something, but before you begin, some drawback or hesitation jumps in and gives you pause. Perhaps you want to write a book, start a business, go to a party, bake a soufflé, or adopt a puppy. Anything! Visions of [...]
Let me tell you a bit of an old Welsh story. When mythic hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes was betrayed and attacked by his unhappy wife and her lover, he instantly transformed into a wounded eagle and flew far away to a tree where he perched in great pain and sorrow for a long, lonely [...]
Please take a minute and think of something that has been bothering you, perhaps even for a long time. Like me, you likely have a swirl of thoughts about this thing. You want it to change but you are stymied in some way. It’s too hard, too expensive, there are multiple players, it could [...]
Who are you “really”? Our minds are constantly doing their best to sort things into categories that will save us time as we build our case about reality. This is a “good thing,” we say, or “a bad thing.” This person is safe or not safe, to be trusted or not, smart or foolish, [...]
Hello, friends! Today I'd like to share with you a fun way to create a fairytale-inspired poem-story about YOU. I invented this exercise to use with young poets I'm guiding currently and we've all enjoyed it so much. Here's what you do: Fill in the blanks here: "Once there was a X named Y." For [...]
We carry within us many selves and I find it's very much worth asking them questions from time to time. You can talk to the child within you, to the artist, to the happy person, to the king or queen. All that's necessary is to ask a question and listen. I promise that when [...]
Just because someone is unable or unwilling to listen doesn't mean you're not worth listening to. Just because someone else doesn't find it interesting doesn't mean it's not interesting. Just because someone says it should be done this way doesn't mean that's the right way for you. Just because someone overlooks the beauty doesn't [...]
I promise I will tell you how, but first I must share a confession: Sometimes, I don’t. Get things done, that is. Sometimes, I simply obey some inner voice that tells me it’s not time yet. That can be scary because almost daily we are snarled at to “just do it,” or “suck it [...]
