I give births. I enjoy giving births. Helene Cixous Everything is alive now. Spring brings permission to begin, again. A fresh perspective, as if we could be virgin, (re)newed. This past weekend saw me fulfill a dream, long ago hatched. A dream begun inwhen I first set foot on the hallowed Pacific Coastal ground…
Category Archives: creative process
change is in the air. fortunately so is Love.
We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors… Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?… Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. Diane Ackerman I look in the mirror and see dots, lines and marks on my neck, breasts and face that…
finding resiliency and refuge through calling in our lifelines
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. Gilda Radner…
an extraordinarily joyful week worth sharing
What takes place here is not ordinary or commonplace unless my preconceptions make it so. What takes place here is extraordinary. Karen Meyer I was in Whistler last week with a dear friend, taking some deserved time out to rest, rejuvenate and play. With so much work on marketing my business right now, especially for…
10 things I have learned about intimacy
1. Intimacy begins with yourself and the way you see and feel the world. You can be intimate with our own fear, or grief, with a friend during a conversation, or in contemplation with nature. 2. Intimacy isn’t only available within a long-term committed relationship. Intimacy is present everywhere we turn. You only need to…
good things come in threes
In honour of the Gate of Interconnection here are three poems from my CD Love is Like This, three photos by Salt Spring photographer Shari Macdonald and three quotes by French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray that speak to how we are inextricably linked one to another. Luce Irigaray (2002) says, “Silencing what we already know…
an adoration
This week’s post is a favourite passage from Nancy Houston’s exquisite novel An Adoration, in which the character Fiona says: Mama claims that people can’t exist in and of themselves, they’re a patchwork of everything they’ve seen and done, their heads are teeming with the words and sentences they’ve heard and read over the years……
reflections on the sea
There is an intimacy here that includes you. David Abram My partner and I spent 5 days in Tofino over the holidays, on the rugged West Coast of Vancouver Island. We stayed at a beautiful seaside lodge and spent our days walking, reading, writing, eating and resting. It was such a welcome respite from…
be a dancing fool
Dance the dance of a fool Become what you become without a thought of what you could have been Be the fool, dancing your body the present unfolding before your eyes a moving picture of a paradise your body the paint as you explore your many colours on canvas Breathe, and your image changes each moment a new…
with gratitude for the dance
This morning I danced in my studio with the lights off. So much light enters through the windows and I am full of light inside. /// I remember dancing with my dad, stepping my little-girl feet onto his big-man toes and letting him lead me around the living room carpet. Then learning to dance on…
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I am a writer, speaker, author, teacher and founder of the Centre for Loving Inquiry, where I teach artists and healers how to live with more joy, confidence, creativity and compassion for themselves and others.
I believe that life is a journey full of possibility, uncertainty and challenge. To live with joy and wonder, requires that we learn to cultivate kindness and compassion, to be gentle with ourselves and others, and to see life as a constantly evolving creative process. As we open to this new perspective, we learn to move beyond our perceived limitations and let ourselves take risks, make mistakes and try new things.
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