Creativity & Wellness Adventures

Yesterday, December 14th was a New Moon and Total Solar Eclipse!  My husband and I went for a long walk along the edge of our city. I usually walk alone and listen to various You Tube videos or audiobooks. It's been like the movie "Groundhog Day" for me since the Covid-19 Lockdown. I've realized that I need other people in my life even though we love each other. Fortunately, he still has his job and we have an upstairs apartment to rent out. Unfortunately, the renter is having a hard time making the rent. I've been trying to change careers and reinvent myself for ten years.  Amidst the beauty of nature was the ugliness of the industrial side of the city and garbage strewn on the banks of the waterway. I'm not sure I want to live here anymore. It's really hard to understand what has happened to the people who throw their garbage everywhere and are living out on the streets in tents and broken down, burned out, tarpolined RV's. The social wreckage of tho

Lost and Found:  I found this little metal heart with a message on it on one of my recent walks! So I am realizing that I'm so used to being an introvert, that blogging is not something that comes naturally. I have this sense that I must externalize my thoughts and feelings a bit more and get over the idea that nobody really cares one iota what I think or have to say. I know that is not entirely true, but there is a voice in my head that says it.. Is that my ego, my inner critic or my censor that Julia Cameron refers to? I think I'm starting to identify that voice! I need to become more adept at naming it and telling it to go fly a kite while I write, paint or whatever!  Sunlight through the trees at Columbia Park in North Portland   I just finished listening to Rebecca Solnit's "Recollections of my Non-Existence" read with her own sweet, articulate voice and cadence. It was validating and healing, inspiring and motivating to start to write and speak more freely a