Curiosity, wonder, and an ordinary afternoon
This week. I had a magical day, a simple one downtown on my island that taught me a piece of what’s possible […]
A Passion for Hope
This week, the world lost one of its great advocates for hope: Pope Francis. His autobiography, titled Hope, reflects the central role […]
If you need a hug—or some light today
This isn’t the blog I intended to write. I’ll skip any analysis of the world or elections and instead offer you my […]
How to Create When You’re Feeling Stuck (part one)
This week, I began designing the course Embracing the Muse: Transformative Processes for Enhancing a Creative Life, which I’m teaching on August […]
Singing through the storms
Here we go again. A major US Supreme Court decision that threatens to decimate democracy gets made a few days before the […]
How to Interview a Rock Star
By the time you read this, I will have interviewed my first rock star. Or, more accurately, a former rock star. Or a […]
Celebrating the Magic of the Summer Solstice
The summer solstice is here with people celebrating around the globe. I’ve never paid much attention to it—except perhaps for a big […]
Stumbling in the land of too-much-ness
While we’ve kept our national attention on Covid-19 and its variants, another pandemic has slipped into town: too-much-ness. You can see it […]
An Unlikely Path to Humility and Mindfulness
When I taught several groups of Japanese managers near Tokyo, one of the qualities I most admired was their humility and consideration […]
Have you taken the AI challenge
(Hint: It helps to be human) The rapid advance of AI technology feels dizzying, exciting, and terrifying. New technology is outpacing our […]
A humble, life saving, brain easing tool
While preparing for my about-to-launch art show, a friend helping me (Thanks, Kymm!) created a checklist to guide my work. On it […]
Bringing all our parts to the table
We have “no bad parts,” at least according to Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach to psychotherapy. […]
Learning to see again
Even with the best of eyes, we often don’t see. I discovered this truth while cleaning my office—a historic event that was […]
Solstice edition: The Light that lives within
Excerpted from “The Light Within” 2023 SJF Last week, I wrote about the darkness and grief many of us felt for the […]
Beauty and the Holidays
I caught up with the Angel of Beauty the other day as she stared into a storefront. “Beauty,” (as she let me […]
The exquisitely beautiful and difficult
“To me, this is so much of life: holding the really beautiful things and the profoundly hard things in the same palm.” […]
Following the trail of “yes”
My husband Steve and I just celebrated the 36th anniversary of our meeting. (We were married 35 years ago.) We said yes […]
Surviving Mile 19
“Hitting the wall” is the term runners use to describe the moment when the bottom seems to fall out of their stamina, […]
Blank is Beautiful
I learned the joy in blankness as I played with my new favorite toy—a “Buddha Board.” The device lets you channel your […]
We Don’t Need to Know Before We Go
One of the cool things about artists is that they often start their pieces (and I’m defining artist in the broadest possible […]