Creative Awakening in Bali

Creative Awakening in Bali

In Bali there was personal transformation in the form of allowing and awakening and new discoveries. But there was also a creative expansion that I experienced while painting alongside Flora’s guidance for five days.  Sometimes I feel a certain kind of...
allowing and awakening

allowing and awakening

(me in Bali on my last day) We lose ourselves, sometimes, to our daily, smallish worlds. Truthfully, my world is pretty narrow. I wake up and either hang with my family or I go to work. I see my friends when I’m able – usually in small windows of time as...
Bali: the offerings

Bali: the offerings

One of my favorite things about Bali were the offerings – a daily spiritual practice of the Balinese people as a way of creating blessings, gratitude, and connection to their spiritual practice. These gorgeous offerings were everywhere, friends. I...
Bali, part one

Bali, part one

Friends, I went to Bali. And it was a life changer. When I think back on all my best decisions – the ones that have gone on to define a clear path for my life – they are the decisions that came with an intuition, a hunch, a knowing without knowing kind of...
The Magic of Disney

The Magic of Disney

Did I tell you we took a family trip to Florida a couple of weeks ago? It was a big adventure. Grandparents! Disney! Beach! Pools! Small town fairs! I haven’t been to Disney since high school and I was surprised how much I loved going back and seeing...
Hello, Maui

Hello, Maui

Dear Maui,     Thank you for your wide open spaces. Your big skies. Your insistence that we all take a breath and…..pause.       Thank you for the most beautiful sunrise I’ve ever seen atop a volcano, above the clouds, and in...
a little rough

a little rough

Florida sky Hi friends, We arrived home yesterday after an emergent trip to Florida. We’ve been there the last many many days helping to care for John’s very dear and beloved granddad. (Bella with a 5mos old baby True earlier this year) While we were gone,...
The Creative Connection Event

The Creative Connection Event

ย  It’s been a long time since I’ve been to any kind of creative retreat or event, and so I was a little nervous about attending The Creative Connection Event – mainly nervous about leaving True,ย  about whether or not I would still feel the buzz of...
hard to believe…

hard to believe…

ย  I’m home from an adventure. A big one. I’ve actually been home for several days but I’m just now getting back to life. Back to emails. Back to work. I am spinning in all the best ways and I have so much to tell you – and show you. Coming...
dear hawaii

dear hawaii

(do you see the rainbow?) dear hawaii, there is something about our big family adventure to your warm and breezy coast that changed something in my new mama heart. on a very practical level, you gave me a subtle but important shift in confidence – a way of being...
hawaii!

hawaii!

hi friends! we’re in hawaii for our first family vacation. i was incredibly nervous about baby true’s first plane ride but it went great. no blowouts. no crying. no drama. we were able to keep him occupied for the entire six hours with new snacks, new...
perfectly perfect

perfectly perfect

you know how sometimes it feels like you are moving a small mountain? all of that effort. all of that dreaming. all of the details. and how sometimes it feels like it takes a century of time to move that small mountain? that’s where i’ve been since coming...