The past month has been a season of transitions. Each member of our family has simultaneously launched themselves into some kind of significant life change. To summarize; my husband retired, one son became engaged, another bought a house and a third moved west to Colorado. I, packed up our home of close to twenty years and, with my husband, left suburbia for the city.
Read MoreI’ve been debating how to write about vulnerability without talking about my own. Like everyone else, I am living through the age of Covid and Donald Trump. Each day has the potential to be fraught with worry for myself, those I love, the country and our common home; planet earth. And, like everyone else, I have my own personal story to add to the mix. An upcoming arterial surgery in my brain will relieve the chronic migraines and double vision I’ve lived with for a number of years. I am grateful it can be remedied but I’m also acutely aware of the trust I am placing in a procedure that just, in recent years, has been invented. My doctor, an experienced neurosurgeon, has done only thirty-five of them.
Read MoreI regularly fall off one “wagon” or another. It’s suddenly five o’clock and I haven’t meditated or exercised; yikes! Well intentioned, I haven’t sat down to write a blog post, return emails, walk the dog, made a new drawing, cleaned my office, paid the bills, bought groceries, called my father, or bathed the aging dog. My weight has crept up a pound or two, the windows need washing, and the fridge is a crusty, dead-food disaster. My life feels out-of-control and overwhelming. I feel condemned and I’m the one doing the condemning!
Read More4. Throughout my life I’ve been blessed to have caring mentors (usually older) who I’ve been able to consult with. Frequently, they’ve consulted with ME…as in, “perhaps that wasn’t such a good idea”, “your reason was?…”, “why did you think that wouldn’t turnout badly?”,etc.
Read MoreA few months back someone I was working with decided to take a break from coaching. Totally reasonable for lots of reasons. I actually encourage people to think, as an artist would, that they are doing a “body-of-work”. A “body-of-work” can be thought of as a focused, limited, series of creations that relate to each other and may express a theme or relationship…
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