Mommess
3 little words… on my doorstep
A multi-media pairing for a multi-media life. Thank goodness for music, art, and poetry. In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes…
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Tag: freedom
Body & Health
You won’t all get this, and that’s okay
Menopause is like a pack of wolves in a bitch’s clothing. So fun to play with tools like Facebook color boxes, then turn them on their head by…
Creativity
Process sans plans & perfection
[originally published in weekly newsletter] I feel at a loss of what to say here today, but my hands love to write, and I made a commitment to…
Mommess
The day you realize
In the past few years, I found myself saying lightheartedly, “you know, I am the center of my own universe. So are you. No one can be anything…
Coaching
Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate?
Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you’ve done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a “J” in…
Family
Feeling Free on the Mother of all days
Sunday is Mothers Day and I’m going to try again to divest myself of all planned work, chores, conversations, and responsibilities; while avoiding expectant smiles about having a…
Culture
Democracy is a practice: how (and why) to do it.
No matter how outraged you feel, or how erudite your arguments against Social Security cuts, NIH cuts, Veteran’s care cuts, National Parks pillaging, yanking legal immigrants off the…
Culture
Got George Washington
And how attention to the present moment yields stories and signs. This rainy grey day, after dropping my son at school, I drove by Job Lot and saw…
Coaching
Open Hope
Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It’s a thing of the child…
Culture
Diversity
If we experience life through a lens where the people we deal with seem most like us, it’s easy to think we have a leg up on navigating…
Creativity
Rebellion | emergence from dark into light
Why new voices from the subconscious matter to all of us. I admire teenagers and young people who rail against every day culture and bring new music and…
Culture
Efficiency: a dangerous game
By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of fast-to-faster to boot.…