So a lot has been going on. Life creates cycles: months of humdrum and habits — sometimes soothing, sometimes dull. And then sudden huge waves of change, happenings, things you can’t say no to. Some things you have no opportunity to say no to; death is one of those. So I’ve been juggling a … Read More
Here’s a term I picked up along the way and made my own: Havingness. I define it as the ability to have; to take ownership — easily and comfortably. While one can be in possession of a thing, experience an emotion, or hold a particular attitude — indeed “have” these — this is not quite … Read More
A new twist in our Gallery of Seeing… The Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) devised the infamous “ink-blot tests.” Using a standard set of inkblots, they were used as a test to reveal one’s personality depending upon what one saw in each blot. Well, I think it’s more fun to look at the patterns left … Read More
I came across the following essay I wrote many many years ago, prior to selling my business. Now that I am a practicing artist again, come full circle, I thought I’d share it here. From a journal entry, 1990: An old class mate I haven’t seen in about 13 years called me the … Read More
Is it possible to have compassion for oneself? If we understand compassion as the ability to experience another’s pain, how would it be possible to have compassion for oneself? Don’t we just, well, have our pain and suffering? How is the notion of compassion for ourselves relevant? Somehow it is. Somehow it must be so. … Read More
You are heading towards California. You decide you want to go with someone else — company on the trip, share costs, more fun you think, ’cause you’ve gotten this far on your own and find yourself a bit lonely, a bit tired of doing everything yourself. You find someone compatible. The other person is on … Read More