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Category: Mommess

Mommess

The Upside Down of Spiritual Awakening

I used to think of spiritual awakening as a good thing: a sign that someone had accumulated enough spiritual merit to deserve to see behind the veil, and…

June 16, 2024June 16, 2024 · 8 min read

Coaching

Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices

My eleven year old wakes up early and likes to go on woods-walks with me most days before school. Today, we figured out when choosing between two potential…

June 10, 2024June 10, 2024 · 3 min read

Coaching

Taking a Hot Second to do The Work

I’ve come to know Byron Katie’s The Work as a strategic identity cleanse, a chance to remove harmful beliefs with surgical precision. If you don’t have time or…

June 9, 2024April 7, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

Ten minutes in an eternal day

I wrote this post in April 2024, but didn’t publish it. It is a picture of the difficult ‘upside down’ frame of mind I lived in for months.…

June 7, 2024June 7, 2024 · 5 min read

Creativity

art, science and a metaphysical bullseye

My friend Alix, developed a metaphysical system* over a dozen years ago, that represents people in a simple, meaningful pattern in color. She spent several years researching, assigning,…

June 2, 2024November 8, 2024 · 4 min read

Photo by Chris Sabor
Body & Health

Showoff

That’s right. I’m done acting modest here. The show is off. Woke Wednesday Yoga. For first time in months. I tried pose to rock onto single foot.Chuck Berry…

April 24, 2024May 21, 2025 · 1 min read

Creativity

Collage, Mosaic, and Original Art

A Digital (with a tip of the hat to a Da Da-ist) Exploration of the Taj Mahal Nina Paley said “all art is derivative” in 2010, and I…

April 15, 2024April 19, 2024 · 2 min read

Mommess

Aperature-clipse

Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024, Camera-making time It’s so fun to see all the plans folks are making about the solar eclipse today. I remember my first experience…

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 · 2 min read

Body & Health

So, just how do you sleep at night?

One of these Master Class titles floated through my social media feed that says you should talk to yourself like a friend. Since I’ve been awakening to the…

April 5, 2024April 8, 2024 · 4 min read

Maya Deren, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creativity

The Art Garde of Cinema

Marjorie, Maya, Dance and Champions of the Avant Garde: 16mm women filmmakers I respect a hella lot Marjorie Keller (1950–1994) was a filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, wife,…

March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 · 5 min read

Mommess

Matunuck

Escaping the sleepover fallouttwo extra boys. Legends lp playing then. And now too. The Digital. Quiet happy. Then. and video games. and airy mattress pushed up on it’s…

March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 · 1 min read

Creativity

Collections of an art dilettante

I had a high school art teacher whom I used to bump into in my 20’s say to me, “I’m so sorry I suggested you go to that…

March 26, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

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