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Monthly Archives: May 2015
a road to reverence
fancy is what it needn’t be in fact, better is simplicity allowing to gather these everyday miracles on a path of reverence: so that a spur of the moment trip for ice cream with an eager child is also our opening to transcendence … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged everyday miracles, grace, ice cream, Inspiration, miracles, nature, opening, poetry, radiance, rays of sun, reverence, simplicity, sun, sunset, transcendence
10 Comments
How Dancing Saved My Life
Sounds dramatic, right? Yet, I realized once again last week that the seeming hyperbole is actually spot on in so many ways. I had been sitting alone in my kitchen, crying. Feeling powerless to help my husband who was in … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Soulful
Tagged body, body wisdom, Dance, dancing, empowerment, expansive, healing, Inspiration, movement, passion, physical, positivity, possibility and expansiveness, question assumptions, quotes, relieving stress, spiritual, transcendence, vibrancy
19 Comments
500 Blog Posts…and Counting?
A couple of weeks ago, WordPress told me that I had published my 500th post. Really? It seemed like a lot, but the number didn’t really hit me till today. In fact, part of my mind can’t quite wrap itself … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, poetry, Soulful
Tagged 500 posts, artist, blogging, clarity, Connection, Creative Process, Creativity, Dance, grateful, Inspiration, Kindness, Santa Hat, Wordpress, writing, writing community, writing process
23 Comments
renascence
it begins as a stirring this inner whirlwind dancing our spangled breath away a gusting dervish no longer thinking nor trying to solve, rather riding, and trusting a spiral that beguiles and showers sunshine on a springtime budding all the while inside … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged beguile, dancing, dervish, dream, expansive, flowers, inner growth, Inspiration, light, movement, passion, poetry, rebirth, renascence, spangles, spring, sunshine, vitality, Wind
6 Comments
beware the herd
they keep telling me to shrink the reaching contours of these dreams scale back my vision’s resolute colors yet how can I dilute their fervor? will we also cow the hawks scoffing that they soar too high? this herd chewing their … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged aspiration, confining, courage, crowd mentality, Dance, expansive, fear, fervor, hawk, herd, Inspiration, passion, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, running, soaring, social pressure, striving
11 Comments
Dance: A Celebration of Being Human
“I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of mankind–the landscape of the human soul….I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Soulful
Tagged being human, celebration, Connection, Dance, dance photography, dancers, dancing outdoors, human body, Joy, living, Martha Graham, miracle, movement, mystery, New Haven, passion, Performance, possibility and expansiveness, public art, quotes, soul
9 Comments
S T R I V E
of course, there are the times we don’t want to just can’t who’s to say if they are fewer than we believe? but the instant there is an inner glimmer we pounce we spring into the day embracing a newborn … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, poetry, Soulful
Tagged aspiring, Dance, dance photography, expansive, ineffable, Inspiration, irreplaceable, movement, perseverance, possibility and expansiveness, public art, strive, striving, sun, tenacity
8 Comments
Paying Attention + Us = Zest!
“. . . Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. It’s all about taking in as much of what’s out there as you can, and not letting the excuses and the dreariness of some of [life’s] obligations…. narrow your lives. … Continue reading
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