IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Beauty
"A life without delight is only half a life." "In order to become attentive to beauty, we need to rediscover the art of reverence." "If we attempt to own beauty, we corrupt it." "The call to the creative life is a call to dignity, to a life of vulnerability and...
Friday Fumbling – On learning to be kind to myself
I was awake at 4:30 in the morning. After sleeping almost steady since my breast reduction surgery at 10:30 the previous morning, there was very little sleep left in me. I lay there in bed, on my back - my least favourite position, but the only position that works...
You lift me up
This day wasn't easy. There was the "clean up my desk before disappearing from work for a few weeks". And the "put out the fires and make last minute decisions" that the staff require of me every day but even more-so when I'm about to leave. And on top of that, the...
Standing naked. Flawed and beautiful.
He stood there. Naked and unflinching. Stared at by a dozen eager art students. Each of them trying to capture the curve of his belly, the shadow between his butt cheeks, and every flaw and imperfection on his face. Not even a hint of shame appeared – not a wince, not...
Are they still missing? Honouring them on International Women’s Day
It's International Women's Day. There are days when I get complacent and think "what's the point of a day like today? Haven't we succeeded in changing our place in society? Do we still need a day to mark the need for change?" And then all I need to do is remember that...
Colour please
Two years ago, I was lucky enough to be in Bangladesh for the Hindu Holi festival in March. It's a day when people chase each other around with coloured water or powder and splash it on each other in a gleeful cacophony of colour. By the end of the day, everyone is as...
An artful journey – using art & collage as a spiritual practice
Monday was not a good day. I'd slept about 3 hours the night before, I was grumpy and frustrated about the bad news my daughter had received, and nothing had gone my way all day. I survived the day at work, but was not in the right frame of mind to go to my drawing...
The journey – knowing what you have to do
Here's the thing... too much navel-gazing gets old after awhile, right? Even when it's ME doing the navel-gazing. Smile. You've done it too, haven't you - clicked on somebody's blog (probably mine now and then), realized that it was one of those long-winded...
The magical world under the table (Or: Life Lessons I Learn from Maddie)
"Now that the party's over, can I create a world under the table again?" Maddie asked. She'd been rather hard-done-by when she'd had to pack up her little imaginary home under the dining room table when her sister's birthday warranted two separate parties in two...
At a loss for words
I had a post (or two) all ready to be written for today. But then my daughter got her heart broken, and, well... the words just dried up. All of the blog posts in the world mean nothing when your daughter is sobbing uncontrollably in your arms. In the end, all I could...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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