With less than 30 days till Moving Day, I have started to pack and sort through my stuff. I have boxes filled with what to keep, what to give away. I recently went through some of my mother’s things, asking the same questions. There is a lot of energy in things. Taking time to sort through them can bring us clarity, space and memories, of course. ...
Read MoreFinding Home, Part 2
“When you set out on the path, the path begins to materialize, but not before.” – Susan Piver Any adventure is a path. It meanders, it gets bumpy. It might even dead end. But if you keep moving forward, one step at a time, it will lead you where you need to go. If you’ve been following my moving adventures to live on the Central...
Read MoreDon’t Call It Dancing
One of my favorite tools I use with coaching clients is re-framing. I ask them to consider a thought, idea, problem, word, from a different perspective. When we get locked into a single way of looking at something, we aren’t open to what else it might be. I’ve been practicing this a lot lately, as my moving plans keep changing and...
Read MoreMaking Your Wishes Known
On my birthday back in March, I was thrilled to start my day with my Rhythm of Being movement classmates. Before class, I stood in the doorway of another classroom, listening to the senior men of the Phoenix Men’s Choir rehearsing. I so wanted to ask them to sing Happy Birthday to me. But they were deep in the practicing of E flats and A’s, and...
Read MoreWithin a Quarter Mile
I’m participating in Patti Digh’s online writing class, VERBTRIBE:MASTER CLASS. Since February 1 when the first class began, I’ve been writing every day. Not a novel or short stories. Just writing. Every day. Patti gives us prompts, and then more prompts that take us deeper. We only have two days to write and polish and post a piece. This...
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