Learning to love a landscape, like learning to love anything, means learning its details and noticing the way in which one’s involvement with those details is interesting and influential. Davis, Luce-Kapler & Sumara I awoke from a dream in which the world outside was in the midst of an intense storm whose high winds sounded like…
Category Archives: relationships
we need each other to flourish
We live in a world that is as complex as it is dynamic. Our interdependence with others and the world beyond ourselves is a fact, not an option. We are surrounded by other people and countless nonhuman species, by made and natural objects of the most extraordinary variety, by every imaginable kind of sensual and…
one lovely blog deserves another
Last Sunday the playful and compassionate writer, Tess Wlxted nominated me for a One Lovely Blog Award. Read all about it at her blog. What a gift to open my emails and find someone writing to me, saying, in essence, ‘I like what you have to say, and I like how how you say it!’ So this…
what a difference a choice makes
Today is a child full of wonder radiating light colour it reaches out to you with love asks for your hand a kiss on its forehead clings to the hem of your heart and expects you will be there over and over despite the hours you already played read, danced in the garden…
it’s my pleasure
“It’s my pleasure!” I find myself saying this a lot in my life when someone thanks me for giving them something, whether it’s a mentoring session, help with their bags, a ride to town or a compliment about their outfit. “It’s my pleasure!” are the first words out of my mouth after they thank me. And…
plenty of joy in the circle
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal…
what friends and family are for
FInally home after almost three weeks away on a gorgeous holiday with family and friends. How grateful I feel to be able to travel to see those I love and to spend time with them, making new memories and seeing the world through their eyes. One of the most vital aspects of traveling for me…
how to be a happy heartrepreneur
I’m sitting here in my studio, sun streaming down on me through the window. Birds chittering in the surrounding trees. This is my oasis. I leave and I return, leave and return. I got home yesterday after two days away. On Tuesday I was in Victoria where I graduated my first class of students at…
accepting the grace of being nobody’s mother
I’m sitting outside beneath a mid-May sun and writing these words. It’s the first day of this year that I’ve worn a dress with no sleeves. Everywhere around me there are birds singing, their glorious chits, squeaks, chirps, whistles reverberating through the garden. A buzzing vibrates the blossoming apple and pear trees. It is a good sign, all…
cultivating courage, confidence and compassion along the path of transition
In March, I was invited to UBC to participate in a panel on “Jobs Outside Academia” for students in the faculty of education. A friend and colleague, Heather Duff, suggested to the organizing committee that I be a part of the conversation because of how I am using my doctoral research in exciting and alternative ways through my work at the…
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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.
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