by jlouden | Jun 9, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Photo by Carla Blazek, owner of Zenamoon. This post is dedicated to my daughter who graduates from high school today. To your freedom Lilly baby! There is a Sufi teaching story about a caged bird. The bird was well looked after by her owner, fed and talked to, and her...
by jlouden | Jun 2, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
I love that the world is full of stories of “I fell down, and down, and down, and then I got up and look at what is possible for you!” The famous video of Arthur healing himself through yoga is a heart soaring example. I think of that video, that man, all...
by jlouden | May 25, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
What if you knew whatever is it you think you need to know to do whatever it is you want to do? and What is it you think you need to know? Can you name it? Would you know it if you saw it, tasted it, touched it? I am not trying to tie you in knots, pinkie swear....
by jlouden | May 18, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I’m writing this from day one of a four-day solo writing retreat. I’ve been alone for about 24 hours. I have:: cried (that happens to me on retreat, like emotional catching up) napped, meditated, chanted (thank you Eric), danced, wiggled around on my yoga...
by jlouden | May 12, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. This is the only poem I can recite from memory. *** It’s what we are all...
by jlouden | Apr 20, 2012 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort, Favorites
What is creative joy? That was the question Marianne, Susannah, and I started asking when we decided to convene a retreat called Creative Joy. Creative joy is one of those phrases that you may think you know what it means to you and yet, when you start digging and...
