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The sky above Hydrant Club on a Spring day…
One of the most glorious things about my place of business is laying back in the cool green grass and gazing up to the sky – especially on a day like today when a high, thin layer of clouds...
Cotton Candy and Pulled Taffy
April 8, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
Amber Glow of Memory
March 31, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
The other morning I woke up just as the sun was stretching its arms and reaching above the horizon. Padding into the living room and curling up on the sofa with my coffee, I gleefully pushed back the blinds to bathe...
The New Moon
March 22, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
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Cradled in indigo sheets, laying sweetly on her back, sending the most gentle of smiles across a sky under which we both dance. Did you look up to see? Did you look up to marvel? Did you look up? I did. Glancing...
Dreams + Waking State = Poetry
March 20, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
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Several days ago I wrote this post noting that I’d been having trouble remembering my dreams. While I’ve not been as diligent about my morning pages as I had hoped, I have been meditating both first thing in the morning as well as another...
Stepping back … Moving Forward
March 14, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
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It’s probably no coincidence that whenever I take one of those online quizzes that purports to answer the question – if you were a dog, what kind of dog would you be? – that I come up as German Shepherd.
High drive. Focused....
Reason, Season or Lifetime
March 12, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
All things happen for a reason.
It’s a phrase bandied about frequently – often when something difficult has happened as a means to help one move through pain or discomfort to a place of reckoning, realization and (hopefully) learning and growth.
When I was 14 years old...
The Garden (or Patience)
March 9, 2015 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
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So strange.
To have something so young so nascent so barely rising from the earth that nonetheless expands to fill a space.
Fresh leaves, young shoots rising and reaching towards the warmth of sun. Encouraged by coaxing, water and attention.
So young, so new and...
The Invitation and Mary Oliver … Inspiration and Spirit
June 29, 2012 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (0)
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As I child I was a voracious reader, consuming books faster than my parents could get them on the shelves that lined most walls of my room. Sadly, today my consumption rate is far surpassed by the magnetic attraction that I seem to...
Attention! Posts Percolating … In the mean time, some poetry
November 7, 2011 in It is what it is - opinion column | Comments (1)
I have a few little ditties marinating at the moment – a rant/open letter to the founders of Airbnb in the aftermath of what I saw as a relatively disastrous presentation by Joe Gebbia at FailCon earlier this week; another one about my experience running...
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