“Heaven on earth, we need it now… walk on …” –U2 Music disrupts gaps for me, coalescing meaning, bringing comfort. Songs arrive at the appointed time, unexpectedly. I delight how the universe links with me in times of empty aloneness, electric connection, deep breath leaps, and unbridled delight. Melody and…
Day 20 of 21 – Disappointment #DisruptTheGap (a few days late) The did-do list was mostly checked, and not enough hours in the day existed to complete everything. So I didn’t sleep. Lists: to-do, did-do It took all night to wrap up packing, cleaning, office, must-do’s … I’d passed the…
“Tension can change patterns,” says Seth Godin in his almost released new book, This Is Marketing. “If you’re going to market a pattern interrupt, it will require you to provide the kind of tension that can only be released by being willing to change an ingrained pattern” (115). That’s what…
“I’m tired of polite, weary of safe. I want to live dangerously—with a willingness to dig deep into the caverns of my life, mining the grief and greatness dwelling within my story and lived experience. I want to give voice to my story, allowing it to shape my present and…
I was dreaming during the time of night when I sleep the deepest, about 4:00 a.m. I’d been up late, and hours earlier, my mind wasn’t resting easily, with the internal pressure and anticipation that at 10:00 a.m. I was scheduled to facilitate an hour workshop for some of the…
Two lodges tucked into the outer edge of this riverbend bring me significant belonging, healing, and flow. In fact, they brought my parents to Alaska, and I followed, though I was still married back then. On summer solstice in 2007, sheer exhaustion sweating from the backs of my eyes, with…
I wasn’t competitive for the win in swimming or softball as a young girl. At least, that’s the story that’s been told in my family for decades. The truth is, I likely didn’t believe in myself or possibility. I was a good swimmer, really good, and I didn’t have the…
May we tend our inner fire and what it is that feeds our unique, distinct, and irreplaceable living flame, May we kindle all that is good, and kind, and worthy in ourselves and others always distinguishing between source, effect, and smokescreen, May we stoke our body, mind, spirit, and soul…
Josh Groban sings, and powerful tears surge in my belly tonight, lubricate my eyes, unexpectedly. I’m not surprised, I wondered if this would come sometime in my 21 day #DisruptTheGap. All day I’ve thought of faces I love and who love me. On this rainy night, after gazing at the…
Beaumont Newhall said, “Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer – a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.” The sun rose with ferocity while the twelve miles to…