A sideways start to the day so my antennae have been awry. I’ve been picking up on things I wasn’t expecting to see or consider, so experiencing the odd sensation of living out two narratives at once: the planned, artistic inquiry into functional art and the role of repetitive action in studio work, and the […]
A strategy emerges… Frustrated, once again, by an intolerable situation I find myself yearning, once again, to be in a position of greater power. A very wise, intensely intelligent friend gently reminds me that there is already enormous power is in what I do, what I make, and the way I offer this to the […]
I find myself looking back through eight years. This is a lot like my recent experience of standing inside Yayoi Kusama’s infinity mirrors. There is no floor, no boundary, no anchor point, nothing concrete, just a feeling of wonder, rising into awe. As I scan and assess these eight years passed through the lens of now, […]
Not sure I can articulate this, yet. Harness has become a listening blanket. Rage has become discernment, patient, like a well-fed shark constantly in motion. Pain has become beauty, complex, like music. like sky and lake. There is time. I am grateful for this, since it will take some time to make a new […]
If you’ve done the work and you feel a strong something to be true, even if it goes against the grain, there’s a place for it. … but you need to listen, and see where that place is. And when it is. Keep walking, pay attention. Make certain no living thing will be damaged. Then make it […]
I’m tucked under a fish blanket in the summer porch of a lovely Air b&b in London Ontario. After a mess of driving through and around Southern Ontario (Owen Sound Toronto; Owen Sound; Waterloo; Owen Sound; Toronto; London) in the past week it’s good to be planted in the side porch of a stately old […]
A curious thing happened during a conversation in a car. This led to an email query somewhere else. An oddly cheerful response came quickly and in the instant of that moment as it sunk in, I felt the foundations of my private inner world shift and crack. Two months later the ground still feels unsteady […]
It’s amazing to me how much more relevant and interesting a book (Grbich 2013) about qualitative data analysis is, when I read it in an afternoon bar half-full of regulars. …subjectivity has value (meaning that both the views of the participant and those of you the researcher are to be respected, acknowledged, and incorporated as data, […]
The clouds sift fine, windless snow onto deck and branch here. I’m grateful for the view of seventy-foot walnut, maple, spruce and ash through this window – ah, there’s the breeze, dancing the straight down flakes into dervishes. Driving this week has added three more verses and a bridge to my road song. It’s interesting […]
“..bright colours make the Spirit People happy, apparently” he said, while he rifled through ribbons at the fabric store, “in fact the whole spirit world is lit up with colours, though I wouldn’t know from personal experience.” I said I’d long suspected as much, and he said “ya that doesn’t surprise me. I wouldn’t normally talk […]
I’m at work on a book called The Healing Pages. It’s about magic. You can make magic out of anything. You can turn illness into a pathway of discovery informed by tiny lights of wonder. They’re right there if you slow down to see them, those lights. You can transform utter certainty of failure into […]
Onward and upward!, as they say. Through the murk and mess of unpacking all that has occurred this fall, which was rooted in what happened four years ago, which was the natural endplay of belief systems and learned behaviours embedded before the recall of memory, the everyday shifts and requirements of life continue. An Ariadne […]