Summer Solstice and the Anticipatory Grief of Climate Change

Our relationship to time and temperature makes the June Summer Solstice date a special one to note In the Northern Hemisphere.  Dark, drab winter days are being replaced by more days of bright sunshine and longer daylight hours. As trees bud out and the storms of...

The Creative Process and What Keeps Us Going On

“When can I get an actual book?” my friends ask me, and it reminds me again of how long creative projects take. The ideas and inspiration can take seconds but the implementation–years. In fact, lots of things take longer than we can ever imagine, especially if...

Wisdom and a New Film from a Master of the Art of Grieving

The Art of Grieving involves processing life’s significant losses to discover the wisdom in them and to use that for our future lives. The arts can be powerful tools in this processing, and often provide ways to share this wisdom with others. I am excited to share...

We and Our Shadows

Today I am visiting what I wrote last year. I was curious to see where we are now in comparison to when the calendar turned from 2020 to 2021.  Cleaning my workspace the other morning a line from a song kept playing on a loop in my inner ear, “Me and my shadow, all...

The Installation – Reckoning: Grief and Light

I missed the announcement of the spring opening, or maybe there wasn’t one given Covid restrictions, so it took me awhile to get myself to the Frick Museum to experience Vanessa German’s installation, Reckoning; Grief and Light. I was drawn first by the artist, an...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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