My sister sent me this goofy thing this week: 33 Animals Who Are Extremely Disappointed in You. I am completely in love with the Corgi at the end who thinks I’m doing fine and is so proud of me. Let’s face it: we all screw up constantly. We let ourselves and others down. We do [...]
How well do you maintain the most precious tool in your creative work? No, I’m not talking about your computer or paintbrushes. I’m talking about you—your mind and body. Over the last year or two, I’ve started skimping on sleep, but when I look at almost any challenge in my creative work, I see [...]
Sometimes you learn what to do by figuring out what not to do. Every summer, I go on a “vacation” where I share a bedroom in my elderly parents’ house with my son for 5 weeks and don’t get any respite from child care or elder care for 2 1/2 of those weeks. Don’t do [...]
Are you a juggler, like me, with several balls in the air at all times? Despite all our time-saving devices, our daily lives seem to be fuller than ever. Juggling all those balls can leave us feeling like we don’t have time for our creative work. This is actually my own #1 creative obstacle. If [...]
Here’s a video I made for you on my walk in the desert the other day. And yes, that is my light saber that appears at around 1:45.
More than two weeks have gone by since my last post, and that’s pretty much my self-imposed limit unless I’m taking a deliberate hiatus. Which, currently, I am not. Damn. It’s been hard to get around to posting because I have been overwhelmed lately with Things To Do. For the most part, they are things [...]
In Week 1 of A Year With Myself, CA Kobu’s unique 52-week self-development program, author Patti Digh wrote about “liminal spaces” and compared them to that period when a trapeze artist has let go of the first trapeze but not yet landed on the other one. Besides expanding my vocabulary (FYI, liminal means at a [...]
Hey, here’s a news flash! When you resolve to do things differently in the new year, you’re setting yourself up for failure. You’ve almost certainly already tried to do whatever you’re resolving to do, and it didn’t work out. Okay, you already knew that. But you may not have thought about the its implications. How [...]
Instead of being a season of peace and joy, this time of year can feel rather frenzied. Between extra social engagements (or the lack thereof), holiday shipping deadlines, shorter days and heightened marketing assaults, it’s easy to get as frothy as the pumpkin spice lattes they’re serving at Starbucks right now. Some of this is [...]
Leave it to Americans to juxtapose Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Start with a day when we acknowledge our non-material blessings and the joy of community, and follow it up with millions giving their credit cards a pre-dawn workout for what will likely distract them from everything they were expressing such gratitude for just one day [...]
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