From 11/7/13 She sat. She sat and waited. She sat and waited and wondered. She mostly wondered about love. She wondered where she was right about love and where she was wrong.…
From 11/7/13 She sat. She sat and waited. She sat and waited and wondered. She mostly wondered about love. She wondered where she was right about love and where she was wrong.…
There is this life in a body. Pulling around consciousness. Sometimes entering consciousness, awareness. Definitions of these things? Maybe I’ll come to that. My body is a breathing, walking, bloody, fleshy, boney, liquidy, ligamental, organy thing. Somehow what I consider…
“When you can no longer detect the all-informing present, you no longer have reason to believe it can offer you guidance.” New Self, New World, Philip Shepherd, p. 220. So this question came up during one of my workshops about…
My friend Jim Coe wrote in response to a brief Facebook post about bees that I was caretaking being dead: “Sacrificial Species: Bees hatch, develop, work and die so that other life forms, plant and animal, may thrive. Help keep…
I have two Farberware sauce pans with lids that I use almost daily. They are the perfect sizes. One is small. Holds 16 ounces easily. Today I boiled water for coffee in the morning and right now a Mason jar…
I so rarely get sick. I have down times and sore times, but rarely deep in bed and lost times. Somehow between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the cold that my family had turned into a deep dive into fragility…
I was at the studio yesterday. Moving. The music I was listening to was Hungry Ghosts. And it brought out a particular contemplative and connected type of movement in me. I enjoyed it. It inspired very lovely movements…
Inspired by Karl Cronin’s Somatic Natural History Archive, this past August I stood on the shore of Lake Michigan in the late afternoon creating my own somatic archive. The wind was blowing roughly in from the north, the waves were…
Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? –Rumi Rumi, so wise, so funny, so prescient. So ancient. Often I’m not…
Last week I decided to go to a dance class. When I decided to go my mind started spinning out this low level hum of “Should I go? I don’t know. Should I? I’ve missed all the other classes and…
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