Journal entry, 7/2/25: “It is startling to me how immediately and completely the garden has entered my life.” It started with a knock on my door. Neighbor Judy, who I had not met before, was telling me someone needed to be in my back yard the next day to trim her laurel bushes. Then she […]
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Teaching: Beyond My Self
In this new life I am defining forward, I ask myself the questions: what brings fullness to my life, and, what are the “shoulds” and the “oughts” that invite examining? In light of this exploration, before I headed out to Playa at Summer Lake to teach last September, I asked myself: do I like this? […]
Emergent
“The capacity to be alone facilitated learning, thinking, innovation, coming to terms with change, and the maintenance of contact with the inner world of the imagination.” – from Solitude A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr I have been busy in my studio over the past 9 months. As I wrote here back in […]
Grief and Art and Slowness
It’s been a while since I wrote. Understandably. Since March 2023, I tended my own true love through the last months of his life with cutaneous t-cell lymphoma. He died on May 30, 2023. We had it good, we had it grand – we lived in a very quiet circle of love filled with lattes […]