Archives for the ‘writing from here’ Category

[A Restless Heart] What Makes a Life – Some Thoughts on Relationship

I feel a little frozen lately. I’ve been putting off decisions and pushing off work because I’ve been waiting on a few projects. The wait is making me question decisions I’ve made, offering opportunities for new choices, leaving me less certain of the direction I’ve been going. Every time I’ve come through one of these [...]

[A Restless Heart] Writing = Coffee

It’s like coffee for me, the writing. It is how I wake up to my day, wake up to my life. The words flow easier in the mornings when the weight of the day hasn’t fallen on me yet, and it is here my heart awakens. I write in my quiet time, the only time [...]

[A Restless Heart] Breathe Deep, Empty

yesterday, something changed. something woke up in me that had been dreaming, something indefinable suddenly defined itself and i woke up to my here and didn’t quite know where i’d landed. someone offered an idea that i’d left behind, and i went quiet with the remembering. i worked on the same image all day, cleaned [...]

[A Restless Heart] Blind Vows

My husband met me in February, 2004. I don’t remember meeting him, not his face, not his voice, not anything but his presence, sitting quiet behind my friend at a table in a darkened corner of the dining hall. I had come in looking for her, looking for something – I can’t remember now what [...]

[Fambly] How We Spend a Real Weekend

I planned to spend the weekend pushing through my processing, but after two weeks with no weekend, I opted for a light-work weekend with a Creative Live course from Jasmine Star and some serious brand work. I probably should have left well enough alone, because I hit a design wall on my new site – [...]

[A Restless Heart] Diminish and Remain…

`I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.’ ♥ there is a passion in me that i may not pursue. i know it. i rarely stumble over it, but when i do, i find i have hidden from the Light as i pursue my own beautiful. i saw it once, in a [...]

[A Restless Heart] Silence

Sometimes the things you say aren’t the things you mean to say and sometimes saying nothing is better than saying everything even when you know that nothing says everything to some but you can’t say the things to fix it.