Thursday’s are for Poetry | 4.25.24
Welcome to my favorite day of National Poetry Month — Poem In Your Pocket Day! Every April I like to add a new book to my Poetry Library... and this year, dear Ada Limón had the perfect collection with perfect timing! You Are Here Poetry in the Natural World was...
A Year of Time | 1.5.24
Life can be very curious and last April I stumbled into this conversation with Jenny Odell. It was the beginning of time showing up for me... nudging me... as I moved through my year with Authenticity. I could not get the conversation with Jenny Odell out of my mind...
A Year of Unraveling | 2023
...To not be making things is to be dead. — Donna Druchunas, comment from Melanie Falick's blog. Greetings dear Unravelers and Happy New Year! Welcome to a new year of unraveling... one which I plan to continue exactly as we have been... sharing peeks into our making...
Reading…the best of the best | 2023
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons It has been an excellent year of reading (again!) I truly do not understand how the non-reader gets through the day......
Forward… with Authenticity | December 2023
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. — Dan Rather It has been quite the journey... one that began way back in 2019 with Focus. I never imagined that it would have taken this long path... and when I...
A Gathering of Poetry | December 2023
I have really been focused on "finding the joy" this month... some things have been bogging me down recently that have seemed determined to squeeze any bit of joy I might have out of me... so when I saw this poem on IG and then Kym posted something so perfect from the...
Unraveled Wednesday | 12.20.23
Greetings Dearest Unravelers! Christmas is now Looming Large... I hope that means that you have all the things you wanted to complete... completed. We got a bit of snow here in the 'Burgh and I love it! YAY! I am feeling all the Christmas Feels with a spot of snow on...