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Crossing Roads
This human thing I am writing and thinking about it - it is common, but rarely named. I don’t have a tidy label for it, but you may recognize it within the following questions: Why am I now resisting the very opportunity I have been wishing for? Why when I get...
Life Finds a Way
Artists celebrate nature visually, through words, by moving their bodies, and making sounds. Teachers use nature as models for understanding. Warriors for the environment know that protecting nature is our true task at hand. Beauty, wisdom and healing...
Feelings: Messengers For Change
The next time you hear someone ask, “Is it bad to feel this?” or “Aren’t I right to feel this way?” Here is a suggested response: Feelings themselves are never bad. They are never right either. They are not something with which we agree or not agree, nor...
Seeing When We Are Blind
"As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.” ~ Semir Zeki When I read this quote in regards to why an artist should never censor true expression, I can’t help but extend this notion...
Flawed
I embrace my flaws. I think all of us are supposed to have flaws. I think when you show there’s flaws in it, thats when it’s flawless” ~ StoryBoard P I once saw a music teacher turn bright red from her shoulder blades to her hairline, apologizing...
On Grief: The Words of a Queen & a Fort Worth Psychotherapist
Queen Elizabeth II was once quoted saying “Grief is the price we pay for love”. Although very few would dispute a correspondence between intensity of grief and the depth of attachment, the act of grieving is often treated more like an illness to overcome in an...