This creation of this image initiated through a creative Wisdom Flag process designed by Beth Mount, and offered in our online...

In 2020 as the pandemic hit, and being at home, working and relating from a distance through the internet, became the norm, I created...

I named this blog, "Following Threads". It began as as a vehicle to follow threads of thought and practice I come across that I sense are...

This week a group of friends and collaborators were talking about continuing to co-create a learning space and experience for people who...

For a good chunk of last year, depression visited me. Depression in my life is the flood of heavy dark voices in my head that isolate...

A couple of weeks ago I was in Spain where I met new friends, some who are wonderful artists, poets, visual artists, and performance...

I must admit, despair is never far away. Divisions are present everywhere and they are so stark. When we feel disconnected, we are at...

Patti and I planned to travel up to Vermont on Feb. 25, for a winter change of scenery at the end of the second year of the pandemic. The...

Last week, I went to bed on Wednesday with awareness that a massive war was being unleashed on Ukraine, by an egotistical, angry, little...

This morning I woke up earlier than usual by mistake (I thought my watch said 5:00, but it was before 4:00). Early wake up just increased...

We are going into our 3rd year in the land of somewhere between what once was, and what will become. Daily life interactions have been...

I continue reading Arthur Brooks' book "From Strength to Strength - Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of...

I started reading Arthur Brooks' book, "From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of...

Today I started reading "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon. It is a book about making your creative process visible, and public, while you...

I write to understand...and make sense. I am old enough to look back at my life and see a laundry list of things that I do, or don't do,...

Social change I spend a lot of my time observing the state of the world --division, conflict, violence, domination-- and waffling between...

I am a seer Some people are doers; adventurers, makers, creators. Some people are students; thirsting for knowledge, wanting to...

In December 1997, I traveled to a TASH conference in Boston. A group of friends and colleagues visited Herb Lovett, psychologist, author,...

In pursuing a vision, I am open to how the shape of it changes as people engage with it. The justus cafe Advisors gathered for the first...

I am interested in the role that time passing plays in the process of creativity, and in particular the time to take an internal vision,...