Essence, Not Form

Essence, Not Form

I’m sitting here in the Wi-Fi hut at ‘my’ lake resort, situated at the edge of the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota. This is our tenth visit to this charmingly rustic resort, nestled on the shore of a beautiful lake. While I’m now a Californian I grew up not far from here, and when my friend invited my family to come along to this place, a place she has been coming since she was a young girl, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

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Career Moves

“There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela

When I was around twenty or so my father cautiously asked me what I thought I might want to do with my life. His question just sort of lay there between us like a big blob of alien slime.

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Body of Work: Illness as a Path to Wholeness

So often we drift through our days in various states of trance-like distraction and habit of thought and action. Then there are times when all that falls away and we find ourselves very much alert to the raw power of our core fears.

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