Media Healing

Here's a wonderful talk on TED that I thought would be a great follow-up to Finding Your Power Without Your Voice.  I don't always give credit to computers and technology for their role in the healing process.  I mean, physically, technology plays a huge part in people getting well.  But as for spiritual and emotional healing, a computer is the last thing I would think could give that experience.  However, I think differently after hearing Roger Ebert speak about his experience.

Finding Your Power without Your Voice

This past December, the ladies at my church held a Quiet Day in preparation for Advent.  We all met at 9:00 in the morning for some bagels, fruit and coffee then headed over to the main church to start our quiet time.  From that point on, 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., we were to be absolutely silent.  I wasn’t sure what to expect but I just knew I wasn’t going to be able to be around a bunch of folks I liked and not share or comment.  I get a sense of security from hearing my own voice.

Medication Curing vs. Alternative Healing

Ahh yes.  Once Upon A Time.....

 

"I Am Large. I Contain Multitudes."

-Walt Whitman

Last Thursday evening I left work, was picked up by my childhood friend and we went, once again to Smith Farm for a SoulCollage workshop.  SoulCollage is a way to explore the many sides of you and connect with them.  I'm not talking about having a dissociative identity disorder.  We all have facets, or layers that we choose to show at various times during our lives.  I am a very quiet person, sometimes very dark in fact, but when I leave my house, I've been told I smile all the day and I know I talk to every passerby.  SoulCollaging is a creative way to getting touch with, understanding and strengthening your relationship with those sides of yourself; your soul.

April Showers.... Part II - Butterfly Gardens

The next day I decided it was time to start my garden.  Every participant was sent home with a goodie bag filled with vegetable and herb seeds.  Besides, the magnolia has been thinned out so sun can actually bathe that side of my yard and house so the timing is right.  Perfect!  I have seeds left over from last years attempt, which I am proud to say resulted in a few months of tomatoes, bushels of basil, three salads worth of lettuce and one single round cucumber. 

So where to start?  I decided to take it slow this year and start with the herbs.  Container gardening for me is ideal right now at this juncture of my life. 

April Showers.... Part I

On February 20th, a friend invited me to join her for a workshop called Rooting DC 2010 at the Historical Society of Washington, DC.  We dropped off my littleest son around 10:30-ish at the very fun-looking, all-smiles, Wiggle Wonders romper room for the day and set our minds to make some big decisions:  Starting Seeds Indoors or Vegetales en Macetas?  We settled on coffee and to skip the first workshop session so we could thaw out. 

Home at the Center of My Art

Ahhh.... yes.  Snow days.  The kids are home, the family is gathered together, laughing and sipping hot cocoa over playing a game of SORRY while the whispy snowflakes come fluttering down outside the windows.  Well enough of that myth.

Tomorrow I'll be returning to work, returning to the grind.  I haven't gone any where except the store in the last week and some change.  So you would think there's nothing to report on.  But wait!  Even though I had that giant, babbling two year old  running in perpetual motion throughout the house, the sloth-like, gangly teenager sprawled out across the couch and the slightly humour-less puma-like manbeast stalking between his den and the kitchen EACH AND EVERY DAY!!!!!!!! I still found a healing place to share about...

my home.