If I were to offer A Song of Hope for this time it would be... Creativity often grows and percolates in the deep and quiet places. This song is actually a prayer which has grown in such a place. A Song of Hope is my heart cry for our world. [...]
This season of COVID brings up many emotions. There is fear and uncertainty, a sense of how everything is put on hold. As a result, I have revisited the subject of how to express grief in writing. We grieve because what we once knew as normal has changed. We may grieve because our lives [...]
My father used to call it filling the pipeline. “You just keep putting things into the pipeline, eventually it will come out the other end," he would say. Somehow he forgot to tell me that sometimes it takes a lifetime to fill up that pipeline... at least, that’s how it was for me. [...]
Losing a precious pet can be a deep journey. In December my sweet companion/friend Stryder died. I hope that sharing about the loss of my beloved four legged one will somehow help you or someone you know. Stryder has always been a dog of miracles. Before I found him, I had been “calling [...]
I am breaking out of old spaces and I am aware how difficult this can be. To me it can feel like breaking out of a very old box. Sometimes we hesitate to show our newest work. This happens to us all, I believe, especially when it deviates from what [...]
In 2015 I took a huge risk. I started to share my own personal work in a blog. This blog was not about business, like I had blogged before. In those early blogging days, I became a part of a 30 day blogging challenge created by Bradley Wills. A part [...]
“And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche No one told me that not everyone could hear the music that I heard... As a child, I just assumed the people around me were like me. [...]
One time happenings can change the course of our lives. One seemingly small gesture can have a massive impact. We have tales about how our lives were touched by a one time blessing. We remember these. They become part of our story. I remembered single acts of kindness that [...]
