Category Archives: Connections
Holes in The Soul
She pictures the broken glass pictures the steam pictures a soul with no leak at the seam __Peter Gabriel Mercy Street Several months ago, I told my counselor about a dream I’d had many years ago, in … Continue reading
Posted in associations, Biography, change, changing the end of the story, Connections, Creativity, Dreams, grief, pain, story, Waking Dreams, wild thing
Tagged changing the end of the story, counselor, dream language, Dream Work, Dreams, emotional, fabric and material, holes in the soul, imagery, imagination, imaging, life experiences, mental, Mercy Street, pain, Peter Gabriel, physical, solutions, spiritual, subconscious mind, techniques, Therapy, visualization, wild things, wilderness
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Back To The Wild Thing and A Little Bird
Although my last blog looked to be a departure from the things I have been writing about (Wild Thing), it really wasn’t. Go back and reread the words to that old folk song that introduces the previous article. The … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Anger, captivity, Choice, Connections, creature, curiosity, following bliss, Friends, Joseph cambell, movement, Mythology, Observer, poem, story, This Little Bird
Tagged advice, boy/man, captivity, curiosity, Dreams, flight, flitting, follow your bliss, friend or foe, hummingbird, Joseph Campbell, joy, little bird, patience, poem, progress, promise, senses, sniff, wild creatures, wild thing
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Making Little Bird Memories
This Little Bird By John D Loudermilk There’s a little bird that somebody sends Down to the earth to live on the wind Born on the wind and she sleeps on the wind This little bird that somebody sends She’s … Continue reading
Posted in Connections, Family, hugs, Memory, music, Thanksgiving, This Little Bird, turkey
Tagged get-together, guests, hugs, John D. Loudermilk, memories, music, niece's daughter, princess, song, Thanksgiving, This Little Bird, turkey
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Those Really Big Questions
I am referring to those questions that usually come somewhere between midnight and 3am on the night before some big event in our lives. The one night when you know that you really need to get some sleep so you have … Continue reading
That Old Telephone Game
We used to play it all the time. We’d all sit in a circle. One person would begin by whispering in the ear of the person next to her. Just a few phrases, maybe a fact or two. Then that … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, associations, Connections, enlightenment, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Knowing, Memory, Selective, Subjectivity, Time, Uncategorized
Tagged circle, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, different voices, distorted memory, honesty, Memory, psyche, relationships, source material, surprise at outcome, telephone game, tone, verbiage, whispers, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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A Couple of Dirty Words
At least they are to many of us who don’t particularly feel a great deal of fondness for exercise and discipline. These two words often conjure up images of sweat, repetitive motion that creates sore muscles and a backache among … Continue reading
Posted in associations, Aunt Lucy, Choice, Connections, discipline, exercise, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Self-Awareness, Time, Uncategorized
Tagged accessible, Aunt Lucy, backache, connect, dirty words, discipline, exercise, focus, learning process, Memory, potato salad, recall, remembering, slippery, speed of light, sweat, tool, words, writing
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How We Know What We Know
There are two primary ways in which we come to know whatever we know. These two avenues often seem like a two-way highway with occasional entrance and exit ramps where we can rest, maybe even loiter for an hour or … Continue reading
Posted in associations, Choice, Connections, Journal Writing, Knowing, Logic, Objectivity, Self-Awareness, Subjectivity, Uncategorized
Tagged argument, association, back country lane, bridge, Choice, comprehension, detachment, direction, Dreams, feelings, gravel, intersection, Knowing, Life, living, map, Memory, Objective, preference, red and green lights, roadkill, senses, smell, stimulation, Subjective, taste, thoroughfare, thought process, touch, traffic, travel, understanding, writing, wrong turns
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An Example of Synchronicity
One of the rewards of being a teacher assigning exercises within the classroom, was my choice to do those exercises right along with my students. Many of them were shocked at that practice, and even more so when I would … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Choice, Connections, enlightenment, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Self-Awareness, synchronicity, Uncategorized
Tagged American Idol, archetypes, classes, connecting the dots, David Cook, energy, example, exploration, hero, Journal Writing, journey, Life, Michael Johns, participation, personal experience, realization, sickness, synchronicity, teaching, watching TV, writing exercises
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Synchronicity
In my last two blogs, I have written about anger and pain, and the advantages of using a daily writing habit to seek solutions and healing for what happens to all of us in the course of living our lives. It … Continue reading
Posted in Choice, Connections, Creativity, enlightenment, Growth, Journal Writing, Memory, Self-Awareness, synchronicity, Uncategorized
Tagged Creativity, emotional content, enlightenment, experience, feeling, flow, journal, magic, synchronicity, The Artist's Way, thought process, unspooling film, writing
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