“Industrious and conscientiousness are often at odds with one another because industriousness wants to pluck the fruit from the tree while it is sour, whereas conscientiousness lets it hang too long until it falls and smashes itself to pieces.” ~Frederick Neitzsche, Human, All Too Human, A Book for Free Spirits This week we celebrated Martin […]
I want us to practice authenticity and freedom together. I want us to experience love and acceptance and I want us to channel our energy in ways that can transform our consciousness and the world around us. All human beings are made up of mind, body and spirit and when these three aspects of our […]
Ode to Rumi I’m beginning to miss my painting. The broad strokes transforming the canvas. Blending color, Waiting patiently, Relentlessness overriding freedom. Curving straight lines and scraping below. I’m beginning to miss my painting. Yearning to be there in that other half. Dirty loose jeans and stained fingernails. Free and absolutely at peace with Where […]
(Stream of Consciousness) In response to a recent discrepancy over the actual age of my mother, I find myself thinking deeply about which memories matter. This is not easy— this mental sorting and slicing, judging and reordering, prioritizing and deleting. In the process, I realize memories trigger emotions and depending on the moment some may […]
Rule of Nature: Growth 1. Take a beautiful plant in a small pot. Water it. Put it in the sun. It will survive but it will not grow.2. Take the same plant and put in larger pot. Water it. Put it in the sun. It will survive and grow. Watch the leaves reach for the […]
Tightly squeezed into a round table during a week-long Common Core institute, I float in and out of semi-conscious paralysis reminiscent of the last time I was called to jury duty. After what feels like hours (which could very well have been mere minutes), my body shifts out from under the blanket of limbo-ness and […]
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