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Category: Spiritual Mechanics

photo of dramatic cloudy sky in morning
Creativity

One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky

I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating expanses. And…

November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 · 4 min read

The Art of Painting By Johannes Vermeer - Google Arts & Culture — lAHeqBoLaePtEA, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22003845
Creativity

Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project

On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 · 3 min read

StoryCollage 08072025 by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson @emwe_art
Culture

The Helpers

On building trust and hope in a world we cannot control. Mr. Rogers said, when you are in crisis, look for the helpers. This is a good strategy…

August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 · 7 min read

Mommess

Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile

The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 · 6 min read

Tell my mistakes to me, not to others. Because my mistakes are to be corrected by me, not by others
Culture

Shame & taking responsibility

And a healing plan for this type of overwhelm below. I was talking with family the other day, and heard myself saying, “I feel ashamed all the time.”…

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

Hey Ram

Today in the woods, I saw Ram Dass1. Well not really. And yet, in another way, precisely. The older man had just a little grey hair and sparkly…

June 11, 2025June 18, 2025 · 2 min read

Creativity

Lady of a non-specific location

Our most aligned vantage point exists in our own inner space. But if you also see yourself in part through others’ eyes things can get complicated. I think…

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 · 7 min read

Creativity

Donut Holes & Superpowers:

probing the philosophy of nothingness in daily life How consciousness works, how it lives, dies, and transforms has been a preoccupation of mine since I was a girl…

June 28, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

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