Nature and Art

Nature and art are so uplifting in the good times and so healing in the bad. I've felt completely directionless after my mother's recent death. I'm forcing myself to participate in the world because I know my mother would want me to. I'm taking it slow. I joined AARP when I turned 50 because I... Continue Reading →

Staying Cool at the Art Museum

It's been really hot and humid this summer. I feel like a wimp saying that, because I live in the Northeast. Most other regions of the country have it wayyyy worse. Allen and I escaped the hot weather the other day by going to a bunch of air-conditioned stores as well as the Danforth Art... Continue Reading →

Being Henry

Growing up during the '80s, we watched a lot of TV: Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, All in the Family. (And that's just some of the older shows that we watched. We also watched just about every current TV show at that time.) When I... Continue Reading →

Tapping for Ukraine

Have you heard of the Maharishi Effect? Have you heard of tapping aka Emotional Freedom Technique? The quick and dirty versions = Maharishi Effect is based on the belief that individual consciousness is connected to collective consciousness, and some controversial research has shown that small groups of people who meditate together can cause rates of... Continue Reading →

The Artist’s Way

I've been thinking about going on a retreat at the Kripalu Center in the Berkshires whenever COVID calms down. (I'm starting to wonder if it will ever "calm down.") So I was perusing the website last month, and I looked at the virtual program offerings. I saw that the writer and teacher Julia Cameron was... Continue Reading →

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