I may have found the spark and the path to bring me not just fully back to life, but upward to my next level of personal development ( Read more... )

At some point during the past three years I stopped defining myself by my pleasure, my passion, my stories, and started defining myself by my duties. It's a cruel way to live -- at least the way I've been doing it ( Read more... )

This is directly related to the post I just made about pseudonyms (although interestingly enough, that word never appears in that post ( Read more... )

I spent the last three hours getting my big pictures hung, with my parents' help. They are real sticklers for detail, with lots of measuring and using levels. They're a great team. And my new place looks and feels so much better now ( Read more... )

I'd been thinking that getting some activity might help my mood -- and I got my chance today. My 77 year-old dad, his retired neighbor lady, and the son of their neighbors and I were all out shoveling the shared driveway late this morning. There were only three snow shovels, so we took turns. I shot the photo during one of my breaks.


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My dad -- and his pickup truck -- will be picking me up around 4pm today to have dinner with him and Mom and see how the storm develops. I'll be bringing along supplies in case we're snowed in without power: not just clothing and blankets, but my low-tech stuff to do --

Beading supplies
Tree of Life notebook that I'm way behind on updating ( Read more... )

I've been quietly fretting about what to get my mom for Christmas, but Amazon has just provided a rather unlikely assist: Rosemary Radford Ruether's Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious HistoryShe and my aunt have turned into real seekers over the past couple of years, and they both were whole-heartedly engaged in my "The Lamp and ( Read more... )

Only one image lingers from last night's dream ( Read more... )

I've been having a much-more-social-than-usual Saturday.

This morning I had the pleasure of visting red_the_squeaky -- and we went for a walk! It's been a beautiful, clear Fall day with lots of gorgeous colors to enjoy. It was nice to have a one-on-one conversation with her for the first time ( Read more... )