O, Lucky, how I miss your diggers with their scent of fresh grass and Fritos! I'm so glad you found me! Yes, t'was a big year. In the middle March, amid a massive snow and ice storm, I moved to a 600 square footer. It takes 20 minutes to clean and has one teeny tiny [...]
What?! I can give myself dose of sanity and no nasty side effects? Introductory Offer Enjoy more receptivity and less reactivity by using this self-care practice! No expiration date or fees apply, but, there's a catch: Orienting takes consistent attention. You must apply the practice. This form of self-compassion increase self-regulation and resilience. Orienting – [...]
A True Accounting of Poetry Instigations from October 2006 - October 2019, in Honor of the 13th Anniversary for Poem of the Month: Three poems in 2006 + 144 poems between 2007 and 2018 + 10 poems in 2019 = 157 poems shared via... the POTM flyer box I stuck in the ground in front [...]
Here's the full quote: “Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” [...]
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein This four minute film starring Seth Godin is about the attribute that makes the whole of creative life and engagement possible: curiosity. In it, Godin says: ‘A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they [...]
Ring the bells! Do a dance! Joy Harjo, a national treasure, has become the first Native American to serve as our nation's official poet. I'm overjoyed by this news! I can think of no one who's mo better to be appointed to the position of poet laureate at these times than Joy Harjo. A member [...]
Terms of Endearment: Lucky, Luckster, Luckers, Lil' Man, Baby Boy, Demander, Stinker, Littlest One, and finally, Beloved. Thanksgiving weekend 2004, Bend, Oregon: It's six months after I found this wee pup running down the road. We're sleeping on a futon I've dragged to the living room for quick access to the door. He's got diarrhea [...]
Are they not having a ball? They have no argument with reality, and in fact, dance joyfully amid the transience of things. Things come, things go. Can you say "hello" and "goodbye" to what arises in your life with your whole heart? If not, hope and fear dominate the mind and close off rich possibilities. [...]
It is impossible to live without leaving a footprint of some kind, a disturbance. Still, I write this to celebrate Earth and her gifts, even as I register the way life forms are desecrated around the globe. Whatever type of activism we engage in, our joy is needed now. The music offered below is both [...]
To honor Women-in-History, I offer you this terrific list of eighteen wildly diverse book recommendations made by The Rumpus, an online literary magazine. Women from around the globe in the arts, politics, activism, poetry, literature, education and more are represented. Inspiration abounds here, so dig in. Scroll down to this month's Further Reflection, titled Know Your [...]