Andy GoldsworthyThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo TolstoyWhy is it so hard to take things in baby steps? Why are micromovements (which seem ridiculously obvious, once you think about them) such a revelation? I think that part of it comes from an unspoken expectation for humans to now move at … Read more
You can’t use up your creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya AngelouAfter a lifetime of repressing and thwarting our creative urges, we may want to swing radically back in the other direction. So, we may suddenly find ourselves overwhelmed by the enormous changes we feel will be necessary, once we … Read more
Peace of Sonoma County © Dana HawleyThe Love of OctoberW. S. Merwin A child looking at ruins grows youngerbut coldand wants to wake to a new nameI have been younger in Octoberthan in all the months of springwalnut and may leaves the colorof shoulders at the end of summera month that has been to the … Read more
Late Meadow with Full Moon© Therese DesjardinMeadow TurfJanet Lewis (1899 – 1998) Goldenrod, strawberry leaf, small bristling aster, allLoosestrife, knife-bladed grasses, lacing their roots, lacingThe life of the meadow into a deep embraceFar underground, and all their shoots, wet at the base,With shining dew, dry-crested with sun,Springing out of a mould years old;Leaves, living and … Read more
© Artsy SFI love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams The idea of micromovements is so simple and obvious. We can see perfectly well that just giving five or ten minutes a day to our creative work will move us forward (and out of our perpetual … Read more
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will–tomorrow! — Gloria Pitzer Today, we start the home stretch for this chapter of recovering our sense of strength. Having done a little more soul searching, it’s time to move forward. We begin what Julia … Read more
Grandmother Frier © Carol GerbingI cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.— M.F.K. Fisher Concluding our ruminations today on how we use our age and other methods to stay blocked, it is time to reconsider … Read more
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. — Shunryu Suzukii Over the weekend, I invited you to imagine how things would be different if you had received all the deep nurturing your child artist needed; as well as what your creative life might look like if you … Read more
The Harvest Moon is the Full Moon closest to the Autumn Equinox. Like all Full Moons, it rises as the sun sets. But at the harvest time, this was especially helpful, allowing farmers to continue to work in the fields by the light of the Moon. The Full Moon is always in the sign opposite … Read more
Kopis’taya (A Gathering Of Spirits) by Paula Gunn Allen Because we live in the browning season the heavy air blocking our breath, and in this time when living is only survival, we doubt the voices that come shadowed on the air, that weave within our brains certain thoughts, a motion that is soft, imperceptible, a … Read more