We stand on the cusp of a new year. I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of new years that look just like the old year(s) except more so. Maybe it is time to ask some hard, life-challenging questions. For instance: Am I content to keep re-enacting past behaviors and relationship patterns? …
Yes, Yes. I know it’s Saturday, but this is a Wednesday-type reflection so we are all going to pretend it is Wednesday. Flipping through a magazine in a waiting room recently, I saw an article titled something like, “The Real Science Behind Star Wars”. I didn’t get to read it because my name was …
In light of the events of the past week (month, year, decade, century), I find myself trying to balance between a self-protective human instinct and a deeply held higher value. It is, perhaps, natural to barricade ourselves and our children in the safest place we can find, close our eyes, put our fingers in our …
Samhain is the season of essences, of bones and sinews. Therefore, one of the natural tasks of Samhain is attending to our relationship with our ancestors (the bones and sinews that support our lives), sending our spirit questing deep into our roots, feeling the breadth and flexible strength of our branches. For some of us, …
Welcome to Samhain. In case you missed it, last Wednesday’s Reflection (29 October 2015) invites you to reflect on the past season – and the past year – and contains a ritual farewell to Lughnasadh and a ritual welcome to Samhain. The winter quarter has just begun in the ancient Irish calendar of the northern …
As Advent is to the church year, so Samhain is to the Celtic year: a new beginning, a doorway opening into infinite possibility. This year, Daylight Savings ends in the United States on 1 November (the first day of Samhain), so we will have a very visible reminder that we are slowing and darkening toward …
The headlines are enough to make even the most relentless optimist despair. Those of us who are trying to ignore world news still find it seeping in around the edges while we stand in lines at the grocery store or bank or post office and listen to the conversations around us. So, as we hurtle …
And so we come to the end of an amazing 21-Day Journey…at least amazing for me. This was the most challenging week of the three — line turned out to be trickier than I had anticipated. The learning curve kept going and I see it stretching out before me as I resume a more ‘normal’ …
I thought these seven days of Week Two would be the hardest because I was only one-third of the way through the 21-Day Journey with twice as many ideas and exercises still to imagine. Not so, as it turns out. The learning curve continues and I have (re-)learned some things and learned others: I still …
It has been a joy spending my days developing a new creative rhythm and then sharing each day’s image and reflection with the Art Journey Support Group each night. I’ve learned a few things already: I really really really need to prune my stash of fabrics. The hardest part of the process is attaching the …