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it’s not the book release I had envisioned: a personal note to my readers
“There’s a stubborn energy about,” said a friend who knows about such things. I released my first published book last week. After almost two years, this story about the wine country, love, and change...
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women’s stories: the heart of wisdom
We women know stories. Stories that hum in our minds as our days pass in a myriad of tasks and chores. Stories that fall into each other like cascading water into the next lower pool. Sometimes...
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some days
Some days it’s hard to move forward, or to move at all, really. You can throw everything into question, into a big soul-centrifuge and let it spin while you feel lost and empty. Nothing works. You...
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create. here’s why you should do it.
a heart on a wall in Genova. taken during an amazing photography course with Camera Journeys You need to create. Do it for all the ones who came before and couldn’t because their lives were tied...
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year end gratitude
My dear friends, I am sitting here at my desk, the wood burning stove roaring beside me, icy fog right outside the window. I struggle to find the right words, the appropriate tone for this year end...
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the life of the creative, curious person
I received the most amazing message the other day from a friend with whom I attended college over 35 years ago. This is a woman with whom I lost touch almost immediately after graduation but never...
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podcast: your beautiful changing life – a new career
Has it crossed your mind to completely change your career, but the simple idea of it seems overwhelming and impossible? Would you like to change what you do for a living to something that satisfies...
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the lion’s heart of a graceful giver
I want to tell you about my friend Jane. Art is an amazing communicative tool. It bridges people from all sorts of diverse lifestyles and mentalities, and gives them common ground. In the hands of my...
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love is intentional
When you move forward with your energy, you are filling the space with intention. Intention works like ripples of you that move things. When things go in another direction than you thought they...
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your own sun, moon, sky. yourself.
The more you gravitate toward doing your own work, the more life will test you. This is a good thing. It might not feel good at the moment, but it’s a good thing. Because as you gravitate towards...
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move forward. stop resisting.
This picture is the last winter photo of the season, taken during a hike in my home town of Milford, PA while here for a book signing event. I love doing my work. I often find myself surrounded by...
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intrepid grace
I’ve come back to beautiful Italy from a two week visit to the United States. I had so many wonderful and deeply emotional moments on this trip; it was packed with loving and meaningful encounters. I...
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the messy bomb
Go ahead. Stumble. I am talking about letting things get messy. Well, you know, things do get messy, right? As much as we like to believe that our story is a clean one, one that moves towards the...
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intrepid grace: soul biographies
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let go of suffering
What’s making you suffer right now? Is it your situation? Or is it your narrative? Because your situation might be what it is because of the narrative you’re telling yourself. And that might be...
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the path to passion course: for you – today!!
I’d like to introduce you to my good friend Barrie Davenport. A few years ago, when I was learning how to blog professionally, I made the acquaintance of a very special lady. She was one of those...
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how Rodney King turned me into a creative entrepreneur
The late Rodney King, shortly after having been beaten by LA Police, who were then tried and acquitted of the beating. Marcus Sheridan recently recorded a podcast where he talks for a while about...
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creative sustainability
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein The heart of creativity is not in its grand spurts of brilliance, but in the tenacity of its...
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creative release
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it - Pablo Picasso I’ve been screaming inside. For calm, for a rock on the head, for anything to move me out of a...
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figure out what’s yours
We’re so overloaded by information and inspiration and motivation and perspiration. Sometimes just figuring out who we are and what we should be doing is worse than going to Macy’s on Black Friday;...
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