Sand Spirit insight card #14 looks like a medicine person to me, an important tribal person wearing a headdress and cloaked in mystery. When I ask this figure what he has to say to me, he says that he is here to remind me that we each have what Angeles Arrien calls our “original medicine.” Whatever cluster of gifts we …
What’s your image?
What do you look like to others? And how do you try to present yourself? Each of us deals with the real fact that how we see ourselves may be different that the image others have of us. How do we begin to project a more authentic “look” that reflects who we truly are inside? Or is that even important? …
Opening a door
Are you a woman leader looking for affordable, practical tools for women at a crossroads? You already have a tool you can teach them that is absolutely free and accessible by birthright. Surprise! It’s the creative imagination! You want tools of hope for women facing the gravity of life’s challenges, and what I’ve seen is the best approach to that …
Being
Being is wide-hipped and wide-lipped. She is like honey spilled all over myself spreading, oozing, sticky, adhering to all my persistent doing. Gumming up the works, widening my cells, opening my heart, expanding to connect with all. Being is curious. She follows each feeling, each perception without having to do anything at all. She listens and sees by moving under …
Your blooming
What is spring if it isn’t about new life? And why not new life with wild abandon, with an abundance that makes you laugh out loud? This time Spring has really done it in Tucson. I couldn’t walk this path through Catalina State Park without wanting to sing, to howl, to do cartwheels! We aren’t in Kansas any more. And …
Sand Spirit Two Minds
What do you see in this image? I see a figure with two minds squeezed into one head. I guess, since the Sand Spirit I draw always reflects me, that I have two minds. Of course this is true. I probably have more than two. But certainly living in a world of duality, I have two. One thinks everything should …
Photographic Vision Boards
Ever heard of photographic vision boards? I hadn’t either, so I invented them. Now others may have invented them as well–I don’t know. But I held an experimental vision board class, and here is one of the results: mine! We went out into the desert together, where we found a lot of water after all the recent rains. We took …
Plane Shadow
In the fall my husband Jon and I flew our Cessna 182 from Tucson to Taos to visit friends who have a wonderful mountain cabin. On the way, we saw fall leaves coming to their peak, almost as quickly as time lapse photography on the Discovery Channel. By the end of the long weekend when we returned, spots of gold …
From the balcony
OK, so actually this was taken from our Cessna 182. Which is a balcony of sorts. From the window of the airplane, I look down on the stage of life, where stories are being played out. I wonder who lives in that house? What is the red building and what goes on there? What dramas have been played out in …
Letting the love soak in
Sand Spirit Insight card #21 I love this card. Sometimes I see a parental figure whose head is the peachy-apricot color, just radiating love on to the smaller one being held. Other times I see the higher Self holding the smaller self, and the smaller self feeling so good, so protected, so seen and so loved. Today it’s all of …
