Month: December 2011

Resistance is the Art of the Ego

The creation of a beautiful work of art is often messy and frustrating.  Art, like life, requires contrast and collision.  Light and shadow must meet, foreground and background must blend,…
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Presence for Presents

The holiday season brings many different gifts, often bizarrely wrapped, while we usually hope for something wrapped just so.  We hope that our family will get along this year, that…
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Becoming More Liquid

As the leaves began to yellow and shrivel this fall, so did my sense of aliveness. The clothes I’d been wearing felt too small but  were so familiar, I didn’t…
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