These great times..the great “either/or”

“Thank GOD our time is now– when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us– ’til we take the longest stride  of soul men ever took.” ~ Christopher Frye, poet and playwright   We are the ones we have been waiting for…. we are the ones now living in the either/or..”

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DON’T QUIT

DON’T QUIT.

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favorite quote

“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.”   ~ Howard Thurman

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Jeanne-Claude passes over

Sad news, indeed. I have never seen one of their installations “live”, nonetheless, I have been very inspired by their work, by their collaboration, by the vision of their projects, by the faith they have in their own work. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/jeanne-claude-artist-is-dead/?hp Some of their work is documented here: http://www.amazon.com/Films-About-Christo-Jeanne-Claude-Production/dp/1891024949/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258660177&sr=8-14 Well worth watching. Beats the stuff that [...]

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Quote for a Monday

When the world seems to be falling apart, the rule is to hang on to your own bliss. It is that life that survives. ~Joseph Campbell, in Reflections on the Art of Living And so, here is a pic of one of my blisses: this is “Autumn Leaves” a grey baby girl, born on October [...]

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The Myss Mystic : truth and inspiration.

Tuesday night, i went to see Caroline Myss on the opening leg of her book tour for Defying Gravity: “https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401922902?tag=bluettproduk-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1401922902&adid=0E5PKN5KX9FVKN2NPY49&” Her short lecture, made sense of so many things about our world today, it was almost like receiving a shot of “enlightenment”, truly. Her book, is of course, on the list for my next Borders [...]

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Sunflowers for Independence Day

A very thoughtful post from Heronswood Nursery, about sunflowers and linking it to Independence Day: http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/07/salute-the-sunflower/?utm_source=070309-SaluteTheSunflower&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Hvoice “And, oh, the sunflower’s large and happy face! Is this not the face of the American people? Bright, cheerful and full of wonder? See how it stands sturdy and tall, its flowering head a beacon of sunshine. Regard this [...]

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preferences…

I stumbled across this quote somewhere at my recent weekend jaunt to Borders. Copied it to a journal of mine and it is a grand enough thought to post here. “To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what this world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul [...]

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easter hope

I had a conversation with an editor I work with a short time ago. We were discussing Easter, and the fact that relatively few send Easter cards. It’s an interesting phenomena, one which seems a mystery. Easter is  a birth of sorts, a resurrection, so why not celebrate it with as much intensity and fanfare [...]

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quote for the day

“Friendship. Montaigne said that friendships are the freest of all relationships. And in the open-ended ambience of the creative life, where there are no sure things and career paths are not marked out and the advice of parents and teachers frequently proves useless, the friend with whom to talk to, to see things, to make [...]

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quote for the day

“It is books, poems, and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge….There must have been little beauty in old stones before Japanese priests and poets began writing about them.” ~Alain de Botton, from “The Architecture of Happiness” (a beautiful , [...]

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poem for a birthday

i have been absent from my blog. To all those who might be looking to this for a boost, an inspired thought, a new idea, and have come to see only silence and blankness here, I apologize. there is a reason – have had some personal, unexpected challenges to deal with. I am not one [...]

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winter musings from garrison keillor

i read this essay in today’s chicago tribune, shortly after I had received news that my uncle had died a few hours earlier.  i can’t explain it, but this essay somehow inspired me (therefore, it is worth posting here). http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0220keillorfeb20,0,2256132.column

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words for a winter day

I am a delirious forest goddess blossoming under a grey sky.

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