December 16, 2016
I keep a file of poems that inspire me, are well written and models for my own writing. Today’s poem is by someone unknown to me, […]
December 15, 2016
William Cullen Bryant spent part of his life forty minutes from my home–the first part of A Winter Piece resonates deeply with me, maybe it does […]
December 14, 2016
One of the very first PRESS: Letterpress as a Public Art Project monthly mantra cards that we made was one that said: Never underestimate the power […]
December 13, 2016
One of the reasons I started writing these Advent posts was a way for me to reflect on the past year while preparing my heart and […]
December 12, 2016
To look inside bodies and meditate one’s own way into them makes it possible to let them become landscapes that are permeated with streams of energy, […]
December 11, 2016
One of the best parts of waiting, when I can be with the waiting is exactly that: an opportunity to be. I remember times stuck in a […]
December 10, 2016
Wislawa Szymborski won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her poetry in 1996.In awarding the prize, the Academy praised her “poetry that with ironic precision allows […]
December 9, 2016
Last spring I enrolled in Holly Wren Spaulding’s Poetry Spring Apprenticeship. During the first week of class, she reframed Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages for me. For […]
December 8, 2016
I keep a Saint Francis statue in my studio. He watches over me as I work, and reminds me to go outside from time to time, […]
December 7, 2016
Yesterday I was scheduled for a mammogram. You see, 18 months ago I had a mastectomy. Typing these words and knowing that I lived through that […]
December 6, 2016
There are many moments as I get older, where it’s been crucial to wait for some kind of news, often related to one’s health, but equally […]
December 5, 2016
If you have been following my writing over the years, you know that I am a fan of Rainer Maria Rilke. His birthday was yesterday. I am […]
December 4, 2016
Yesterday I was listening to an ancient mixed CD and rediscovered the song Birds by Mark Shepard, a pretty obscure little gem of a tune by […]
December 3, 2016
I dip into my 1991 copy of Earth Prayers from Around the World edited by Elizabeth Robers and Elias Amidon from time to time. There’s always […]
December 2, 2016
All kinds of subversive things find their way into the body. Bessel van der Kolk writes about this in his book The Body Keeps the Score. Here’s a […]
November 27, 2016
The first Sunday in Advent. A time to sent intentions, to hold a place in the heart for some kind of quiet practice, a time to […]