Making Good Things Even Better

One thing I love in this life is to make a good thing even better. I’ve written before about my belief that a thermos of tea can turn an ordinary trip into an adventure. Add a snack, add a book, add music, add time outdoors, add a friend: instant improvement to anything. I love to [...]

By |2023-04-10T20:49:56+00:00April 10th, 2023|Artistry, Love, Spirit, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on Making Good Things Even Better

How to BEE a Genius

OK, is it just me or is anyone else completely addicted to the New York Times daily games? Like many, I'm besotted with Wordle, but the one that really has my heart is the SpellingBee. Words + puzzles: my jam! I'm now going to contravene every bit of maternal advice ever drummed into my [...]

By |2023-03-01T21:04:35+00:00March 1st, 2023|Artistry, Creativity, Intelligence|Comments Off on How to BEE a Genius

Welcome back to my digital “home”: a little tour of what’s inside

Hello, my friend. It’s good of you to “come over” to see me here. Your company is cherished and deeply welcome. Please imagine me now, opening the green, wooden door and beckoning you inside. In our increasingly digitalized and decentralized world, I feel more and more that this site is my online home. Here, I [...]

By |2023-02-26T21:11:58+00:00February 26th, 2023|Artistry, Creativity, Learning, Love, Spirit, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on Welcome back to my digital “home”: a little tour of what’s inside

Need encouragement? Ask an Irish proverb!

After many decades of studying Irish proverbs, they have become good friends whose voices speak to me with kindness, with sly wit, and with graceful intelligence. They take the long view. Here, at the beginning of the year with a million hopes, desires, and goals swirling in our minds and the kind of excitement [...]

By |2023-01-26T02:56:49+00:00January 26th, 2023|Artistry, Celtic, Creativity, Learning, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on Need encouragement? Ask an Irish proverb!

What are you loyal to?

You’ve had this experience, I’m sure. You want to do something, create something, or try something, but before you begin, some drawback or hesitation jumps in and gives you pause. Perhaps you want to write a book, start a business, go to a party, bake a soufflé, or adopt a puppy. Anything! Visions of [...]

By |2022-12-28T21:43:16+00:00December 28th, 2022|Artistry, Creativity, Learning, Spirit, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on What are you loyal to?

How do you know if you’re talented?

I’m going to tell you right now that my way of answering this question is unlike the usual methods for answering it. And I’m also going to tell you upfront that only you can truly answer it for yourself. Let me explain. Our society uses different methods to determine what we call “talent,” which [...]

By |2022-11-28T20:14:53+00:00November 28th, 2022|Artistry, Creativity, Learning|Comments Off on How do you know if you’re talented?

How is learning like healing?

Let me tell you a bit of an old Welsh story. When mythic hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes was betrayed and attacked by his unhappy wife and her lover, he instantly transformed into a wounded eagle and flew far away to a tree where he perched in great pain and sorrow for a long, lonely [...]

By |2022-10-24T22:39:21+00:00October 24th, 2022|Creativity, Learning, Love, Spirit, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on How is learning like healing?

This is the Time, and I Will Find the Way

Please take a minute and think of something that has been bothering you, perhaps even for a long time. Like me, you likely have a swirl of thoughts about this thing. You want it to change but you are stymied in some way. It’s too hard, too expensive, there are multiple players, it could [...]

By |2022-09-27T15:57:49+00:00September 27th, 2022|Creativity, Spirit, The Bardic Life|2 Comments

What is really going on when we say “really”?

Who are you “really”? Our minds are constantly doing their best to sort things into categories that will save us time as we build our case about reality. This is a “good thing,” we say, or “a bad thing.” This person is safe or not safe, to be trusted or not, smart or foolish, [...]

By |2022-08-29T19:39:39+00:00August 29th, 2022|Artistry, Creativity, Love, Spirit, The Bardic Life|2 Comments

Stories to Kindle Caring on a Warming Planet

You know, we really need fairytales. We need songs. We need stories and poems and proverbs and other expressions of human creativity and experience. This is not extra – a bit of liberal arts fluff, as many claim with a patronizing smile. No, this is central to the development of what I call a [...]

By |2022-07-19T17:33:35+00:00July 19th, 2022|Artistry, Creativity, Love, Spirit|Comments Off on Stories to Kindle Caring on a Warming Planet

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