We sat together and cried for almost two hours, sometimes holding hands, sometimes wiping our eyes or noses with tissues (we emptied a whole box). And two days later we did it all over again. She is a professor with a doctorate in the hard sciences. Years ago, as an undergraduate, she made the decision she …
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 …
Before I start I want to wish a Happy Birthday to my beloved son-in-law who begins a new year today. First: If you have not read last Wednesday’s blog, please click through here and read it [Harvesting (sometimes elusive) Courage] I don’t want anyone wondering what happened! Second: If you think you have signed up …
Things are changing. Please open this and read it all the way through. I love the ocean; I love watching the ocean when a storm has passed somewhere out at sea and the waves are coming in to shore with more than their normal height and velocity. Surf is amazing and beautiful and lifts my …
On Monday, we left the mainland of Scotland in our wake [always remembering, of course, that Scotland is not really a ‘mainland’, but part of an island] and turned our face toward Orkney, following the light north. We sailed through deep swells – and sunshine! Who would have guessed we would go north into warm(er) …
Almost 40 years ago I crossed Salisbury Plain for the first time and saw Stonehenge right there in the middle of a kind of unkempt meadow — which was how it looked at that time. It was utterly breathtaking even then, partially hidden by the exhaust fumes and solid bulk of tour buses in a …
On a recent Southwest flight across country, I noticed that the man in the window seat in my row and the man diagonally across from me, got briskly onto the plane, put their suitcases and briefcases and coats in the overhead bin [In spite of repeated requests from the flight attendants that people store their …