On Insights and Becoming...

Vortex, 16x20 (2010)

"The human ability to accept new insights creates room for people to

become something different."

~ Nancy Duarte, resonate

Moving, Shaking, Grounding

cloud doves

"Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights."

~ Peace Pilgrim

There's a lot of movin' & shakin' going on in my world these days. I'm on the brink of a new experiment of significant scale and I'm not sure how things are going to unfold. But unfold they will and it's all good.

In the meantime I've been anchoring myself in tangible tasks like laundry and dishes and shredding old bills. Sometimes it's the simplest things that ground me the most.

Tell me, what grounds YOU?

With Gratitude

close-up sunset on the St Lawrence, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec

Life has been full. I am tired. It's time for a list of things for which I am grateful, just 'cause.

Today I am grateful for...

~ books, books and books

~ being able to connect with creative kindreds across the miles via Facebook

~ Squam Art Workshops is coming up in less than two weeks

~ an evening full of good conversation and good food shared with a very special group of friends

~ laughter that's so good it hurts

~ my colleagues, realizing how close a group we've become and how that makes going to work every day so much more pleasant

~ options

~ having successfully completed my experiment of posting weekly Productivity Prompts

~ savings in the bank

~ a certain sense of naïveté that allows me to dream and believe in possibility

~ a knack for planning and crunching numbers

~ did I say books?

~ a comfortable home

~ family

~ September, it brings homemade soup, sweaters and crisp, clean air

~ sunshine and blue skies

~ a local farmers market that's bursting with harvest goodies

~ D. and Cassie, goodness yes, D. and Cassie

~ you.