A tea and conversation, letter-writing moment between friends… I’ve decided to try this style today after a wonderful conversation with a good friend. It somehow captured so much in the space between us and within our words of exploration and discovery and convictions. World Hearth for Peace and Friendship’s wordship: Where there is genuine interest, […]
Embodied Movement
A Life of Practice. A Life of Creating.
To hold open space has been a disposition for me for a very, very long time….most of my life actually. When I was younger, I called it creating environments. Opening up space and creating within it and out of it. Artistically, I called it Doctor of Environments, because I could sense so many things in […]
The Beauty of Frustration
Jenny Liz Rome, Artist Frustration is a state of being full of fusion. It is convoluted into itself, because it arises within ourselves. Frustration is like a pressure cooker that builds bubbles of aversion. It simmers under pressure. There are several dictionary definitions for frustration: 1. “the thwarting of impulses or actions that prevents individuals […]
Unraveling
As one creation ends another begins. As I unravel the wool sweaters of gardening, what’s left are the continuous threads of life ready to be woven into a new garment of warmth and wisdom . With no beginning or end, I have only one moment at a time to discover and re-discover, over and over […]
The Originality of Life
A landscape of human life appears and reveals itself in the depth and lightness of colour, offering awareness of its dimension. Beings and babies born in this space between awakening, into a new geometry of perception. Just looking. Just breathing Just noticing moment by moment. With a lifetime of situations, contemplations, dispositions, relationships, and responsibilities, […]
Metamorphosis
We live in a world of energy. Energy fills us from the sun. The wind, the full moon, exchanging words with another, nutrition, the movements of the stars, the movement of our bodies are all exchanges and experiences of some form of energy. In the world of the stars, when someone speaks about Mercury going […]
Bringing Dignity to the Ordinary
This morning I felt like Rick Mercer walking down the graffiti alley of rants. Rants, for me, are moments when things and thoughts have accumulated to a point where they come out of one’s mouth as a kind of hip hop litany. Between the verses, I said to Rod that I felt like I was […]