Silver Linings
Silver linings, new perspectives, fresh ways of seeing… as we continue to experience ever more deeply the upending effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, many people around the world are offering and experiencing what we could truly call Silver Linings to the dark clouds. Surprising and heartening perspectives are emerging from this, in some ways, clearly...
Want Inspiration? Try Clara Schumann!
I recently had the opportunity to attend a Concert by all Women Composers. One of the pieces, a piano concerto, was by Clara Wieck Schumann. Cycling around the next day, with the music still in my head and heart, the title, Want inspiration? Try Clara Schumann, kept popping up!! I had heard about a Clara who...
Happy? Happy… Happy!!!
The theme of Happiness has been popping up (like popcorn!) in the last while. In his most basic teachings the Dalai Lama says, ” All human beings are the same. “We all want happiness and do not want suffering.” Well yes, we might say, but what is happiness, where does it come from…We can’t buy it, but...
Creativity — Metalmorphosis!
Last Saturday we went south to join family and grandkids for an outing to the Bellingham Technical College‘s 2012 Welding Rodeo. Now that’s not an event I would have chosen on my own, but one of Mike’s sons is a welder — Jeff fabricates steel and aluminum into impressive objects. We’ve talked about some of the...
YES! YES! YES!
I just came across a sweet, deep, heartful poem called “God Says Yes to Me” by Kaylin Haught. I love that God is female , that she talks with a warm, southern accent, and I was touched what she responded when asked whether it is was OK to do this, that, or something else… as...
