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“It’s as though I were living at last in my eyes, as I have always dreamed of doing, and I think then I know why I’ve come here: to see, and so to go out against new things—oh god how easily—like air in a breeze. It’s true there are moments—foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump—when I’m all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed…”
William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
(Photo: Brad Ewell)
The Relinquished Baby's Billboard Brain
If your brain is constantly telling you that you are about to die, guess what? You create situations, consciously or not, to prove this true.
The Story Under the Story, my Class with Robyn Gobbel, Part 1
To feel compelled to write your story and to feel you have permission to tell it are two very different things.
On Reading Gregg Levoy's book "Callings. Finding and Following an Authentic Life"
What happens when you calm the wild in your mind to open to the silence?
Something Definitely Happened Here--Guest Blog Post by Ruth Steele--Part 2
What I can say is that in addressing my adoption, I have had to rethink what I am.
The Queen's Gambit, Pam Cordano's and My Plans for Flourish, and The Story Under the Story with Robyn Gobbel
I have come to see that the best thing I can do for myself as someone who has felt essentially wrong of most of her life, who has felt like outsider, is to talk freely.
Something Definitely Happened Here--Guest Blog Post by Ruth Monnig Steele in Response to a Post I Wrote about The Primal Wound--Part 1
We need to embrace the ambiguity of what we are.
You Could Not Pay Me to Adopt a Child Because I Do Not Want A Hungry Ghost in My House
If you gave me a trillion dollars tomorrow, I bet I could spend it and enough to get me into debt by next Friday.
Love and Loss and Love Again--guest blog post by Julian Washio-Collette
One day I hope to see my disappearing acts blossom into a superpower. I hope to discover that overcoming my greatest fear and embracing the devastating losses of my past plunges me into intimate contact with a world that is always dying, always being born anew.
How Do I Show You (and Myself) How I Feel? Snap!
It’s confusing when part of feeling alive also involves destruction.
Speaking "Just Right" in Flourish with Pam Cordano and a Group of Boss People
The irony is that the more “just right” you speak, the more “just right” listeners you will draw into your life.
Deanna Shared This With Me and I Laughed My Head Off and I Asked if She Would Share-- Guest Blog Post by Deanna Freeman
Writing a report for work.
The task is officially accepted. Time to shit myself ever so slightly.
The Primal Wound Reexamined (Take Two)-- written with Pam Cordano
I worked really hard on this post with Pam, and then I realized that I hadn’t made a clear argument, so I went back and reworked the piece. I may have to go back tomorrow and do it again. This is a tough one for me to get right!