Men’s Work #6: The Courage To Be Yourself Let Yourself Be Seen

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole … “The Journey” by Mary Oliver

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”~Edward Everett Hale

My heart aches for the violence being done to people in my country. Maybe your heart is aching too. I take breaks from watching the news, but today a friend posted a story I read about last night in Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles newsletter and here it was again in my friend’s post. I could…

Soon after it snowed I saw a red breasted robin in the tree outside my window. His red breast next to the white snow-covered branches stunned me. The robin reminded me of the promise of spring in the midst of winter. Despite the despair of the human world, life would go on.

One winter in January, 2023, I went for a walk near my home. I didn’t notice what was around me. My mind was worried about all the things I hadn’t done yet. Then I looked up at the trees and I wrote this poem when I got home ~ Wintering The bare trees of winter…

Does the change of season affect your creativity?   A friend of mine recently lamented about her creative slump. “All summer I was headstrong into my… The Seasons of our Creativity

Small easy steps entice us to try. Big steps overwhelm us & we freeze. Then we feel bad about ourselves that we “didn’t get anything done.” I’m trying these smaller steps and have been amazed what happens. Try just 5 minutes or 30 seconds of the task before you and see what happens. I’ll be…

Years ago, when scrapbooking was my creative outlet, once or twice a year I would spend the weekend with a small group of friends in a craft store … Good Enough

The masks are off. Trump, MAGA Republicans, and their billionaire donors have given up on even pretending to govern for the people and are solely … Don’t Give Up On Our Country!