There’s a card in the Tarot deck called “The Fool.” In most decks, he’s portrayed as a young man. His face is turned up toward the sun as he strolls along. You can see that his next step will take him over a cliff. So,…
Category: `The Healing Garden
I belong to the best little writing group. We meet once a month, reading each other’s work and offering a variety of edits. After offering our words to the group, we dive in like raptors to pounce on weaknesses, sharpen the focus and rip open…
On Saturday, Spring arrives. The Vernal Equinox announces her return with the smell of dirt, small bursts of floral color, and the soggy squish of rainsoaked ground. Who’s ready to rejoice? I feel lucky as I watch the warm rain fall outside and think of…
As a creative, we often work on our own. We sit in our studios or our offices or at our kitchen tables and find ourselves looking at the dog and asking him if he can take the time out from his busy napping schedule for…
The other day, I was listening to a podcast…. Hello. My name is LA Bourgeois. I am a podcast-aholic. (Got any favorites? Pass them my way!) So, I was listening to a podcast and the speaker said that she always approached projects with an attitude…
Whenever challenges arise that I know are going to be weird and hard and thrilling and joyous and horrible all at the same time, I turn to music to keep moving. The right song lets me sing the words in my heart and dance in…
How do you function and maintain creativity when the panic and fear reach out to crush your heart and push all of the air out of your lungs until you are gasping? How do you stand back up when you’re knocked to your knees by…
Transformation seems like magic. When we think of transformation, we think of magicians turning a beautiful lady into a pacing tiger – something amazing and fast and done with a whirl of a magic wand. We think of the butterfly the caterpillar becomes, flying loopily…
Or How Box Breathing Can Help You Manage Holiday Stress We knew we were in for it in 2020, what with the election heading toward us like a freight train. However, we didn’t realize the other stressors which would run through our civilization: marches for…