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Staying Tuned
How do we stay spiritually tuned in a loud and noisy world? I used to wish that my viola would simply stay tuned. My friend Tina would play Concert A on her oboe (how did she do that?), and then the strings and woodwinds play and adjust to find that note, all at the...
Slipping Up
How do we turn what feels like a fumble into an upgrade? Reflecting on what happened and naming the learning, unlearning and relearning I got in the experience is worthwhile for me. Here are 3 lessons I'm working on and claiming. Perhaps they resonate with you as...
Blue Fridge
"I'm so happy!," I told my friend over FaceTime after seeing the apartment. "It feels as though it was made just for me, and guess what? The appliances are blue!" Such an artsy-fartsy feature, right? A new blue fridge and matching stove are undoubtedly inviting an...
Offering Requests
Here in the Midwest, you might say we are known for indirect requests. "The knives are getting dull." "I sure am getting thirsty." "The kids need a baby-sitter." Taken at face value, such examples do well to name the problem, but the implied meaning in certain...
Morning Pages
I did the thing I said I'd never do. "No, I'm not going back to read all my morning pages!," I'd say. But the next unspoken thought would be, "Well, maybe some day." While I still can't imagine reading all 121+ notebooks, I did manage to read one-- the oldest one in...
Complete Refresh
During a recent retreat at a friend's cabin, the wood fire renewed warmth to our bones after a wintry walk. How might we create that same sweet feeling of renewal here at the end of 2021, such a challenging year? Interestingly, many of us never learned how to create...
Navigating Loss
A teacher named Kulu explains that joy is the only human emotion. Yes, we experience grief, he adds, and we know that grief includes feelings of anger and sorrow. "What about fear?", we asked. Fear is just anticipated grief, he said, so again grief encompasses fearful...
Art Tracks
Out walking in the cold sunshine of nine degrees below zero windchill, I found the squeaking crunch of the snow under each step comforting. Do you ever feel that with each step on your creative path that you are stepping into uncharted territory? Crunch, crunch,...
Clearing Debris
How do you know which way to go? How do you make choices, decisions, plans and progress in a way that honors and includes your spiritual nature? First of all, it sure helps to clear whatever is in the way of your own discerning clarity. Mental and emotional debris has...
Make Way
What's the #1 thing that gets in the way of creativity? Fear. Of course it's fear, right? Apprehension takes many forms and uses a myriad of sabotaging tactics to keep you from noticing the cause, assessing its validity and determining whether or not there is...
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