The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.— Natalie Goldberg We are winding down Chapter Seven this week, with some exercises and final thoughts. Did you work on your jealousy map over the weekend? How did it go? Today, we are archaeologists, and will be … Read more
Stillness In Prayer © Lucia HartiniGrace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It’s the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.— Tim Hansel One of the hardest things we may experience along The Artist’s … Read more
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.— Robert Louis Stevenson As we are discovering, many of us carry hidden grief, where our fragile young creative self was shamed and wounded. When this happens enough, we … Read more
The Frustrated Artist – © 2007 Bill Shain He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.— Abraham Lincoln We’ve been exploring the wounds of shaming that may have shut down or hampered our inner artist for many years. This is hard to look at sometimes, and if anger, grief, and fear … Read more
Barn’s burnt down —now I can see the moon.— Mizuta Masahide, 1688 Today, I’m going to share a wonderful, powerful tool that will help us overcome our reluctance to believe we are being helped and guided. In fact, it is one of the best tools I know of, for holding at bay, if not permanently … Read more
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.— Chinese proverb When I was many years younger, I used to be hit hard by what later came to be known as SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder. As Autumn proceeded from its … Read more
Like today, it was a Tuesday. There will certainly be a lot of speeches and rhetoric today, but I suggest this outstanding offering from the wonderful Starhawk. Blessings to you today, and to all our human family. No exceptions.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.— Og Mandingo Yesterday, I told the story of Elsie, the 90-something woman who lived at the nursing home where I worked in the 1970s. She was an extreme case, but there were others like her, who … Read more
The Five of Cups To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. — Pearl S. BuckThis is a first appearance for this week’s card (since I’ve been posting my Tarot Cards of the Week the past several years). It is a card that is both mysterious and sorrowful. A figure is … Read more