Creativity
Covering
I love the idea of covering. The grace of covering came for me over 20 years ago via a fisherman. Today, covering is at the core of how…
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Tag: terms of endearment
Family
Acclimate
A Term of Endearment post with whiffs of ritual and how to help multi-dimensionally on difficult days. My mom is moving. Moved. The last few days consisted of…
Coaching
Valuing your values – a mini workshop in a post
Many moons ago I crewed for a personal development coach in Hawaii and both coasts. I used to help usher folks across beds of hot coals and jump…
Mommess
Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’
Hi Friends, DISCLAIMER: This is not financial advice. I am not a tax expert, and the post below is not to be considered professional advice. It is a…
Coaching
Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase
I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…
Language
Audience
A term of endearment post. If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip with…
Language
Perspicacious: a term of endearment
I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love. The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I’d…
Language
What do you call utopia?
With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…
Culture
Admitting Conflation
See, I’m on a self-study immersion in the English language and American culture so as to become a better writer. And my course is pretty sloppy and more…
Creativity
Emergence ⟺ submergence
Acknowledging your submerged self, the media you choose to portray it, and The Beatles. Have your ever felt that you are emerging from something? If so, where are…
Creativity
Becoming a writer
Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…
Creativity
Validation & Credentialing ~ Terms of Endearment for oddly-credentialed kin
I’ve been pondering the value of credentialing and validation for someone to get recognized for mastery in action, but have personally not chased either; preferring instead to practice…