Third week running. But is it a habit yet—there’s the question! Here are the ten things, in no particular order: using my heart as a barometer and mediator of a tense situation is a much better thing having tea and a long chat, with blankets over our...(read more) Read Full Story
Wait. Hold the phone. Did he take one of those Inland Passage tours? Had a hard time getting to Vancouver from Rome in the 1500’s? Maybe he just dreamed the scene above and here came the hands of man and god, voila. The creative process is like that....(read more) Read Full Story
One of the best things about blogging to a prompt site is that you begin to know the other people who also post to the site and a relationship is formed. So it is with Geraldine. She is an avid writer, vegetarian cook and photographer. I'm delighted that...(read more) Read Full Story
Second in this series --I am beginning to feel the practice of it. When I'm walking the dog, cooking a meal, washing my hair, I'm wondering 'what in this experience may be one of those precious ten things I'm learning this week'? Not that of course I...(read more) Read Full Story
Struggling to become incarnated embodied really live in this body and not my always-editing mind, on what grounds do I engage what re-incarnation might entail? The closest I can get to understanding reincarnation is making art of of found pieces of what...(read more) Read Full Story
Here are some responses to a silly email game. You send this question out to your so-called friends and see what they come up with. I sent it out this week and got the following responses. Some of them only close friends would recognize as...satire? If...(read more) Read Full Story
One of the best parts of the Virtual Tea House is that it is becoming an incubator for new voices. Out of the recent Nature of Words workshops here in Bend, I met a new-to-be friend, Kathy Powell who lives here in Central Oregon. This is her first post...(read more) Read Full Story
Bend, OR: This past weekend I had the privilege to sit in writing workshops ( The Nature of Words ) with several wonderful writers--and I suspect, amazing human beings. Among them was Seth Kantner , Charles Goodrich and Kim Stafford. There were many great...(read more) Read Full Story
I've had the primal need to hide my neck from you. As a child I had nightmares of you flying into my tangled long red hair and not being able to get out. The picture of your face in the Encyclopedia Britannica chilled me what with your fangs and upturned...(read more) Read Full Story
Samhain Day of the Dead All Soul’s Day Our prayer: Bring us to the edge of the known Allow us access to what we swim in but don’t usually breathe. These thin days shift us like turned pages like the enter key like sleep. We enter the darkness of the year...(read more) Read Full Story
