I really want to write something amazing and inspirational for this day of gratitude. I want to write something not pithy and trite and cliché. I’m kind of stumped, so I’ll just go with honest. This year, Thanksgiving is a difficult day. It just doesn’t feel possible to set everything aside and focus on gratitude. […]
What happens to chaos if you don’t engage? Nothing. It just goes on its merry way. What happens to you if you don’t engage in chaos? Nothing…and everything. If you don’t engage in chaos, it pretty much leaves you alone. It might swirl around you, but you can sit there in the eye of the […]
This week, this month (this year?) has been a wild, anxiety inducing ride. I’ve noticed myself falling back into an old and very uncomfortable pattern – checking every 15 minutes to find out if something new and alarming has happened. Have there been any new developments? I happen to live in the California wine country, […]
I wrote a really fun blog this weekend. It was all polished up and scheduled and ready to go out by Sunday afternoon. Then, Sunday night there were the emergency alerts coming in fast and furious on the phone. Evacuations. Fast moving fires. Deja frickin’ vu. At this point, I’m okay but several of my […]
I wanna build on part of the topic from last week’s post, specifically polarization. To quote myself (I know, I know) “Polarization is when we perceive people who disagree with us as our enemy. Polarization happens as a result of stress and fear.” I’ve been reading about quantum entanglement. I’m not a quantum physicist (duh). […]
That’s right, harmony isn’t made up of just one note. When I think about the music that I love, it’s made up of lush, complex harmonies. Different voices. Different instruments. I especially like crunchy, contemporary music that has a bit of discord and resolution. The discord makes the resolution even sweeter. I also like a […]
Last weekend, I was talking to Jordan, responding to a simple question: “What did you do this weekend?” I listed all the chores I had done (our joke is that I can that relaxing) and started coming up with excuses for the things I hadn’t done. “But I did extra laundry, so that should count […]
How are you doing? How are you treating my friend? We’ve all been living in an extended period of hyper-vigilance, stress and anxiety. It’s different than the kind of stress we were used to in the “before” times. It’s super important to make the time to take care of our mental, emotional and spiritual health […]
Overwhelm feels a little different these days. Our normal responses and coping mechanisms may not be effective – nor even possible. In normal times, I define overwhelm as a pile of decisions to be made. In these times – pandemic, economic unrest, social upheaval, isolation, upcoming election and and and – I define overwhelm as […]
I sat down to write today’s blog in Color Thinking. I decided on the topic, because I did kind of feel today like I have the Isolation Blues. Then I got just a little distracted. I opened an email that had a link to a video clip from a Consort Chorale trip to Argentina a […]
