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…
At Papohaku Beach in March 2018, I took a mistaken path departing the beach. The further I walked, although I was entranced with the beauty and rippling with bliss from the day, it became more and more unfamiliar. I was likely on the wrong route to the road and my…
An entire day to be home, take a deep dive into projects, giving full permission for my yes to to be yes, and no to be no. This Saturday, to be deliberately true to this 21 day #DisruptTheGap and commitment to myself involved both FOMO and JOMO. The rising sun…
Some days, disrupt is disguised in simple gentle presence, and salt. “The cure for anything is salt: sweat, tears, or the sea,” wrote Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa. Time and again Dinesen’s words have proven true to me. On this Friday night, I add, so too is…
Have you experienced what I like to name flow—big flow—when synchronicity, coincidence, the planets align, grace, or magic happens? Surprise happens in the most ordinary times and places. I am so curious about how flow erupts genuine surprise and helps us learn to trust how much hidden support is…