Mythology is something I think about a lot. Not quite an obsession, but definitely a big thing for me. Maybe you’ve noticed. I find a strange kind of satisfaction in piecing together puzzles with missing pieces, so many missing pieces. Making wild leaps head first, connecting dots that are barely visible, finding little coincidences that […]
Sometimes I create lists of writing prompts for myself, either as an exercise, or to keep this blog thing going. This one, Mystery is Bigger Than Magic, showed up on my list without my intervention. Well, maybe I typed it. I don’t know. Somebody must have. I have no idea why I would have, and I […]
When I knew I was going to have to take six weeks off to recover from my hysterectomy, I decided to read up on water. Water is right up there with oxygen when it comes to our survival. Gotta have pure, fresh water for the body to run on. And although I don’t have any […]
One of my favorite Iowa poets, Deb Marquart, published a small volume of poetry manymany years back, called Everything Is A Verb. The title stuck with me, and I have revisited many of the poems over and over as well. But that idea, that everything, everything, is a verb . . . Mr. Rogers reminded […]
Have you ever been just gobsmacked by something, some song lyric or piece of poetry you memorized as a child without understanding, or some family ritual that seemed to make some kind of sense when you were little, or some song you used to sing in church that you never even thought about, when it […]
I’ve been on a songwriting kick. (Yay! Dry spell over!) I’ve written two songs in as many weeks, and am working on two more. So the fields have done the fallow thing, and they’re over it. Let’s grow something! One of the things I frequently do to encourage inspiration to flow is to go through […]
I keep forgetting how new sound healing is in the United States. It’s been around, of course, but not in anything like a mainstream way. When I say I’m a sound healer, most people get a very confused look on their faces–but fortunately most of them are curious and very intrigued. So I thought maybe […]
A friend and I were recently talking about the coming ecopocalypse. She, like so many other people, can’t understand how anybody can think this is all going to blow over. How can anybody not be running around screaming with their hair on fire? It sure takes every bit of my willpower not to. There are […]
Creativity can come in fits and starts, bursts, deluges, or . . . not. Sometimes, we’re empty. There’s nothing pressing we’re trying to say, no epiphanies to share, no questions to pose . . . Things are good and quiet and peaceful, and we’re doing what we do, and that’s that. When I would have […]
No gory details, I promise! The surgery itself was a snap, I literally slept right through it . . . But seriously folks, it went incredibly well, didn’t even take an hour, and I was in very little pain afterward. I probably could have gone home the first day, but that’s not how it goes, […]
