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Sensual Living – More Ways To Live A Creative Life
In my last post, How To Live A Creative Life - The Art of Sensuality, I spoke about the importance of indulging in our senses as a way to open the gateway to our fullest creative potential. Today I want to get more specific and talk about how things like art, writing,...
How To Live A Creative Life – The Art of Sensuality
Whether we are writers, painters, potters, quilters, musicians, or any other type of artist, our creativity will always be enhanced and flowing in full force when we discover the connection between our art and sensual pleasure. Over the years I have discovered that...
Dark Angel – A Muse To Fear Or Embrace?
About eight years ago I wrote an article called, Owning The Beast Within. It came about as an expression of all I had learned about my own dark angel through years of compassionate therapy with a truly gifted woman and healer. She had shown me the places inside myself...
Famous Quotes About Writing – Why We Love Them So
I truly love to read famous quotes about writing, mostly because they help to remind me, on days when I actually loath to write, that our self-respect as writers lies in the doing of writing, and not in the done. Oftentimes, a single quote will be enough to get...
Simple Ways To Improve Your Writing – 5 Tips That May Surprise You
So often when we think of becoming a better writer or how to write well, our minds will automatically zero in on things like grammar, structure, or the so called 'rules' of writing. My idea of writing well has always been the opposite of these conventional rules...
Writing In The Slow Lane – Depth Over Speed
There is a deeper flow to our lives, the kind that can be likened to the silent, ever constant movement of life that takes place at the bottom of the ocean. Sometimes the surface may be still and calm. Other times turbulent and violent. But always, way deep down,...
What Dreams May Come
Spring is on the way. With seemingly everything else falling away from life as we have known it, there is a deep and gratifying sense of relief within me, that I can still sense and feel the stirring of new life emerging after a long, cold, dark winter here in the...
Journey to the Unknowable
For many people, especially sensitive empaths who were not supported as such growing up, it can feel as though we are losing our minds. All that we held onto for dear life, all that was known and brought comfort and security, is falling away. Whatever we could...
Love’s Way
It's a cool, breezy afternoon as I write this, and I am sipping on a soothing peppermint tea. I just came out of the bathroom, where I noticed in the mirror that my eyes were blazing with a kind of light that was not there this morning when I woke up. Short of...
Soulful Tenderness
Last night as I was laying in bed, just before I fell asleep, I remember having the thought that I should write about September 11, 2001. I found that strange. It's not something that's usually on my radar. This morning it became more clear that I was being guided to...
Beloved Affair
I just ate a gorgeous avocado. I love the way it feels in my hand...how the pear shaped base fits so perfectly in my palm. Having a love affair with an avocado may seem a bit strange, but in keeping with yesterday`s blog post, it`s the soul of a thing, person, or...
The Soul of Everyday Living
It's so easy to get lost in the details and dramas of ordinary life. Of course, they only seem like details and dramas if we are caught up in the whirling "Tazmanian Devil" energy of the mind. In this chaotic, never happy place, the soul of life is completely...
Rip Your Guts Out Kinda Grace
Beauty shows itself in many ways, and if we allow it to, all of life can become an act of grace and exquisite beauty. For the past few days I've been noticing that I'm experiencing chest pains...the kind that you just know have something to do with the heart. I keep...
Kissing The Feet of The Beloved
One of my favorite poets is the great Sufi master from Persia, Hafiz, who lived and wrote during the 1300's. He writes so intoxicatingly about the magic and beauty of the Divine that pulsates in and around everything, and about celebrating and treasuring the...
The Real Game of Life
As I sit here staring at the computer, watching the letters form words across the white screen, I am aware of the constant hum of the hard drive. Someone is nailing something into the wall in the next unit from mine, and I can hear the low drag of the elevator as it...
Intention of Vibration
My daughter went back to school yesterday after a two-week Christmas break. I could tell she had some stress around going back. Afterall, life in Grade 8 can be a little daunting, especially if you're sensitive and empathic. As our car approached the front door of...
Beauty’s Presence
I know I write about Beauty a lot. I can't seem to help it. I never really know what I'm going to write about when I sit down to write on this blog, and yet Beauty, in some way, shape, or form, always slips itself in there and makes itself known. I think it's...
Sacred Beautiful Being
It's a snowy afternoon here in South-western Ontario, Canada. The first real snow we've had all year showed up the other day. Only a couple of inches, but enough to stay on the ground to create that soft, peaceful feeling that sort of cushions and magnifies all the...