A Soft Heart

Summer is in full swing. This is the time of year when the energy of the heart is high. When in excess or out of balance, we can feel angry, tightness in the chest, restless, or an underlying sense of angst. To me, this feeling seems to have been amplified lately due...

Creative Fire

Creativity is fire. There is a burning ember in each of us. This essential spark is alive, in some way big or small, in every heart. When we do things to fan this flame, it grows. When we give words to the things unspoken in our hearts, when we paint that leaf the...

Deep Hearing

I’ve been putting my belly on the earth a lot lately. Sometimes I think I can hear better that way. There are so many ways of hearing. We hear with our hair, our eyes, our skin. There is a hearing in the belly that is deep. It’s aligned with that saying “you know it...

Refill

Sometimes I wait too long to refill. I always notice my house plants drooping with thirst. Their little leafy arms grow weak. The weight of so much beauty and vibrancy becomes crippling without enough moisture to sustain it. Their little green arms wither to brown...