Since 2021 I’ve been thrilled to work online with people from around the world who are learning powerful writing techniques with the irrepressible Nina Wise. I’m grateful to my “pandemic friends” who show up in zoom rooms for real human connection, and I’m feeling joyfully motivated to keep using the new skills we’re learning together.
https://www.ninawise.com/writing-workshops
I am feeling so incredibly lucky to spend intermittent Saturdays inspired by the vibrant Joanna (at 91) and her sidekick Lydia… Zoom has made it possible for her students from around the world to show up for her wise exhortations and laughter. Anyone who needs a new way to cope with despair and love for our humanity and our planet may want to check out her amazing body of work.
I’m grateful to have spent five days at the amazing Hollyhock centre, learning from Rebekka Goldsmith and Khari Wendell McClelland and the participants in our Create to Liberate group! Lots of deep listening to ocean, cedars, song, other people and my own heart.
The past seven months have been so full of living, some of it quite raw. Deaths and transitions and lots of listening to others’ painful moments. And yet there has been such a sweetness, like a descant adding its melody to the main line of sound. Sources of inspiration this year have included eagles, my husband, the physical space of the round earth room crafted by my friends… water and waves in Australia… the beauty of enjoying both words and silence with the people I love. Dancing. Invoking kindness, and watching it arrive, sometimes with such joyful and quirky synchronicities.
Grateful thanks to Jennifer Berezan and Nina Wise and all the brave women who circled up on June 14 at Sundog Retreat… I felt deeply nourished. And alert to new ripple effects…
Incredible thanks to Joanna Macy, all her co-teachers, and the amazing women who took part in the the six-day retreat “Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of All Buddhas” via Spirit Rock.
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Have had my mind ripped up and put back together in new shapes after reading Byron Katie’s “Loving What Is”… I know the book’s tone has some of that over-the-top California exuberance and I’m not sure I’d want to visit her mansion… But the core essentials of what she calls “the work” are vital and intriguing and are helping me wield my own scalpel… the “turnarounds” are humbling and very liberating.
Wonderful talks – I can’t wait to hear more of them from this year’s conference – and inspiring podcasts. For when you need the sisterhood. http://www.emergingwomen.com/
I pretty much get inspired by every article in the National Geographic… and much of what I hear on CBC radio… and mostly by what passes outside my living room window. So why do I bother to post these? I feel a lot of gratitude for the people who have shared their stories with me… of significant moments, of marriages in trouble and in triumph, of special teachings, of everyday frustrations. These often point me to new learning. So by posting some of the shareable sources that have come my way, I put them on offer in case someone else feels them poking as a good opportunity… may they be a good itch.
I did want to express thanks to the participants and speakers at the 2013 Wake Up Festival in Colorado, which was a multi-pronged source of inspiration for me. And to the women who came to Sundog Retreat in June 2014 to learn from the irrepressible Nina Wise… I found our weekend together planted seeds that are now poking through…
Just wanted to say thanks to Michael Brown for his great book, which I’ve experienced as very alive and enlivening.