Growing UP^

Welcome ~ It’s exciting to navigate through the summer quadrant of the natural-circadian year…the WE segment of the year.  This post invites you to take a 30-minute break to consider your ‘second self’ by accepting the gift described in the video: Introduction to Explore Your Greening Force Watch, gain...

Bloom Where You Are Planted

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin Budding Black iris, Wren House Garden, 2021 May 1, Beltane signals a time of flowers and the opportunity to consider the symbolic seeds that...

Earth Day ~ Gratitude to Mother Earth

Happy Earth Day! Gratitude to Mother Earth sailing through night and day! Here is an episode of NOVA describing the ways that the elements of Mother Earth, air, fire, and water interact to create our planet-home. And here, in honor of National Poetry Month is one of my all-time...

Emerge n See 2021

… to ‘Emerge n See’   Click the circle to register I’m excited and happy to invite you to experience PWP: Progress Without Pressure “EMERGE n SEE!” We’ll mine the creative/expressive gold of the Alchemical, Archetypal ‘BE ME’ What does this mean and who is this for?   The “BE...

Renew You

Each February provides us with a cycle of Renewal … this post is from the  archives: At the Well, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 48 x 48″  “When the Mother seats herself in the heart then everything, be it stained or stainless, becomes but an ornament for Her lotus feet. She lives...

The Pits

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. John Updike quoted in The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp We are at the mid-point in the 12 weeks of winter. In the six weeks leading up to the spring equinox, the opportunity is in...

The Criteria of Emotional Maturity

Every act rewards itself, or in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.  Ralph Waldo Emerson October is my favorite month year after year. Being here at our 50-acre retreat tree...

The Boys in the Band

The seventy-one-year-old self is stepping aside during this portion of the blog posts while my nineteen-year-old Younger Self comes forward to share her long-secret/hidden story … She surfaced last year during my recovery from a traumatic injury. The last several posts have circled around to meet her in 1968,...