Twist

Lately, the universe seems determined to remind me that flexibility—or at least non-linearity—is a wonderful trait to demonstrate preferably early but definitely often. I’ll grant that limber and meandering minds tend to excel at creating or embracing new concepts. And that supple hearts and bodies tend to make it easier to go along and get [...]

Plenty

Turns out this summer has been a full one for me and most I know. “Full of what?” brings answers of shifts in obstacles, fresh blooms on bedraggled hopes, and careful mental planting around inert objects of non-affection. As there’s been a rather relentless amount of stagnation or limbo around, we’re all a bit giddy [...]

Peapod

It’s officially summertime in my part of the PNW, and moods seem to be lightening along with the sky. And luckily for me, that seems to be the case across time zones. With people looking for excuses to play—guilty as charged!—I’m getting lots of opportunities to laugh and relax while catching up with friends and [...]

Fantastical

For the last few weeks I may as well have been trying to ice skate in a roller rink. Contemplating alternatives to my rather disturbing effort-to-momentum ratio led me to Edward de Bono, who says: It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by [...]