Camp Enchantment
For six weeks we will travel to landmarks in the Imagi Nation landscape, explore creative projects, and engage in the themes of celebration, enchantment, imagination, dreams, signs, symbols & synchronicities, and wonder.
Moving Forward in Cycles
Humans like to think that they live linearly with an orderly structure of days, weeks, and years to mark time, always focused on some goal or destination. Actually, life happens in seasons and cycles of spiraling growth…
The Artist’s Way: Enchanted Edition
The Artist’s Way (TAW) was first published in 1992. The author published a 25th anniversary edition. In the words of the author, Julia Cameron: It has been a quarter of a century since the tools were first…
25 Years of The Artist's Way
I just bought the 25th anniversary edition of the Artist's Way. In December, I'd given my worn out copy to a loved one who expressed interest in it. Just recently I agreed to lead a summer session…
Profound Message from a Kiddie Pool
I’ve a story for you. It’s about a profound message from a kiddie pool. We decided the addition of an inflatable kiddie pool right at the edge of the deck would bring a higher level of luxury…
Trusting Resilience
I have no interest in sky-diving. My internal free-falls are enough excitement for many lifetimes. I collapsed at the news that my cat had to be put to sleep about 20 years ago. I’d known the grief…
Lunar Love
March’s new moon is called the Planting Moon since spring is the best time for planting many common veggies, herbs, and fruits. More moisture in the top layers of the soil during every new moon (due to the moon’s gravitational pull…
Leprechauns are Tricksters!
Are Leprechauns and the fairy realm real? You must determine that for yourself. Here in the Portal to Soul Sparks, we will make a regular practice of simply suspending disbelief long enough to spark a creative…
Mary Poppins with Hostile Sarcasm
I was walking in the drizzling rain last week, feeling generally crabby and tired, but enjoying my bright orange umbrella. I’d engaged with too many negative personalities. Unrealistic expectations were running rampant. Menopausal symptoms overtook my usual exuberance…
Courageously Lily-livered
I'm courageously lily-livered and you, the reader, are scary. You are going to JUDGE me. But I know a well-kept secret in our world: judgement is only ever a mirror. I'm afraid of not being relevant as…
Trust Resilience – Detect Hidden Treasure – Abide in Wonder
