12 Days of Creativity 2012 – Day 2


Christmas is upon us. So each day from now until December 25, drop by the Wheel of Creativity blog for a deep breath of spirit in the midst of the festive flurry. Let’s be creative and connected this Christmas! It’s the best gift under the tree!     Lean back | Take a deep breath. | Look up from the screen. | Relax. Station 2 and the Wheel of Creativity gives me… an appetite for THAT  “It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you...

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12 Days of Creativity 2012 – Day 1


Christmas is upon us. So each day from now until December 25, drop by the Wheel of Creativity blog for a deep breath of spirit in the midst of the festive flurry. Let’s be creative and connected this Christmas! It’s the best gift under the tree!   Lean back. Take a deep breath. Look up from the screen. Relax.     Station 1 and the Wheel of Creativity gives me… a hunger for something more than this. “Hunger comes to me on the road like a savage beast,...

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getting home for the holidays… with the angels among us


‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the skies Not an airplane was flying… If you have seen any news at all this month, it will come as no surprise to you that Monday morning, when I got up to go to the airport, there was an email in my inbox informing me that my flight had been cancelled. I have found that breakdowns often disrupt our lives just enough to reveal the angels among us. Today, after my own horrendous 36-hour trip from France to England, I can’t help...

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the new thing for christmas


Today I began my 60th journal. I have been keeping a journal since January 4, 1976, my 20th birthday. So today I decided to pick up that first book and read a few pages. Such a tender young thing I was:  so much promise, so little experience of life, and such a burning desire that my life would count for something. The road from there to here has been long, though it has passed in the blink of an eye. Sometimes narrow, sometimes wide, it has been anything but straight. The...

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