You can dance your life, and in dancing your life you can lead the life you want to have. -Anna Halprin WHERE IN YOUR LIFE DID YOU STOP DANCING? If you were here last week, you know I proposed that this question begs us to look in the wings for other metaphorical questions. Questions that … Continue reading
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Meaning Mondays: Dancing with Heart
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown As you may recall, last Monday found me doing a lazy dance across my bare kitchen floor. And a few weeks ago, I wrote about the Four Healing Salves: Singing, Storytelling, Silence, and…drum roll please…DANCING! Clearly, something’s in the air. Or at least, … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: Lazy
THERE IS MUCH TO DO. Calls to be made. A workshop to be planned. Articles to be written. Tables to be dusted. Laundry to be washed. Clothes to be ironed. Meals to be cooked. Plants to be fertilized. Bills to be paid. THERE IS MUCH TO DO. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. As it sinks in, … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: A Simple Philosophy Emerges
In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole. -Carl Jung Now this took me by surprise. I woke up this morning … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: Between Gratitude and Grief Edition
For the last few weeks, I’ve been monitoring the rise and fall of Leo. Leo has his good days and not so good days. Sometimes he’s alert and raring to go, eating well and enthusiastically. Other times he’s sluggish and unresponsive, with little appetite. Last week it got a bit scary, even, when he took … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: The Unfolding Path Edition
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. ~Joseph Campbell This is a picture of my path. An actual path, that you can stroll on. I built … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: Creative Chick Meets Warrior Woman Edition
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn’t sit for even one, that’s the journey of the warrior. ~Pema Chodron SO, A FEW WEEKS AGO, I MADE REFERENCE TO MY INNER WARRIOR. Let’s just call her Wise Warrior Woman. WWW for short. … Continue reading
Fortune Cookie Magic
On the outside, it looked like all the others. But its circumstances were different. Normally, when Chinese take-out is on the menu, I’m the one who ladles the food out of the cartons and onto the plates, getting them to the table. Once we’ve finished, Dave’s the one who gathers it all up and clears … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: The Less is More Edition
Did you ever hear the story about National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg? Back in the fall of 1994, he got tired of the grind. The endless treadmill. The pressure to produce more. So what did he do? He hightailed it back home, to the Boundary Waters area of Northern Minnesota. In that wild and beautiful … Continue reading
Meaning Mondays: Life As A Quilt Edition
Life is like a vast ocean, full of deep mysteries. Life is like a roller coaster, with many ups and downs. Life is like a path through the forest, and you never know where it will take you. LIFE IS LIKE A QUILT Of all the many metaphors for life, one of the most enduring, … Continue reading
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