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Choose Your Life Mondays #7

December 28th, 2008 · 19 Comments

Choose Your Life Monday is an invitation to name what pattern you will lovingly notice this week and to do so in community. Of course, you can do it any day you want- you don’t have to start on Monday. Join in when and whenever suits you.
The holiday family bonanza is winding down. Tonight is our last family dinner for eleven. And […]

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The Not Quite Daily Dollop Newsletter

December 26th, 2008 · 12 Comments

The last few days have been hectic ones in my house as we prepared for our first blending of Bob’s family and mine — from brunch through dinner. I’m utterly heart blasted by the love and care everyone gave to each other — from my daughter Lilly making a slide show with pictures of everybody in our “old” and […]

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Choose Your Life Mondays

November 16th, 2008 · 85 Comments

Let me say right at the beginning this is an experiment.  I may not want to do it every week. I may forget. Nobody may play.

And that’s okay.
Choosing Your Life Monday is an invitation to name what pattern you will lovingly notice this week.
As you may know from this post I recently set a BFHG and it’s […]

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Comfort During Fearful Times: Election Hang-Over

November 6th, 2008 · 8 Comments

I took two naps yesterday.
I could barely form a thought, let alone write a blog post.
I felt little down. And I felt guilty and weird about feeling let down. But then in the afternoon, coaching a writing client, we were talking about how fighting yourself never works and I thought, “That’s what I’ve been doing all day. […]

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Life is a Verb

September 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: I adore Patti Digh’s book Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally.  I love her writing, her depth, her sizzle. This is a book that makes me sing with life and the possibilities we all have for transformation and […]

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Don’t Lead with Your Hips

September 15th, 2008 · 18 Comments

I get a lot of strokes for being so honest in my writing and my retreats. It’s healing to see I don’t have it all together. I feel the same way - it makes me feel less alone when someone I admire for their writing or ideas or artwork reveals their own messy process. But […]

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Doubting

August 29th, 2008 · 15 Comments

I was upstairs this morning making some various art messes and as I was painting pages in my art journal because I thought that might get me into the creative flow (which feels tantalizing close these days but I’m not quite immersed in it yet) and as I was painting I watched thoughts go by […]

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Yi Yi Yi

February 15th, 2008 · 17 Comments

I’m a Frito Bandito…
Just had to write that. I’m dating myself!
I needed to write to CONNECT. I miss our conversations and yet I feel our connection, us creative thinking heart women webbed around the world, opening and closing with the tide of life.
I’M STILL ALIVE and I’m actually, well, great. And good. Certainly stronger. More even-keeled. Learning heaps. […]

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Desire, Mood and Shoulds

November 27th, 2007 · 12 Comments

I’m wondering and thinking and experimenting with this idea of desire as separate from mood. It continues to excite and free me… and then that niggely nasty word should comes creeping in the door… and confuses me a tad…
I should make this retreat deeper and richer.
I should be meditating more, asking for guidance more (or at […]

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If You Can’t Retreat -

April 24th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Long time amazingly intelligent and even more resourceful Helga sent me this story yesterday - I had to share it with you!
From Helga:
“Tried hard to arrange for Sedona, but couldn’t get kid-care on short notice. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. I know it’ll happen when the time is right. Meanwhile, I had a different kind […]

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