your daily rock : love your layers
It’s interesting to think about our lives as layers, strata of emotion and body and events, like the cut-open side of a mountain where we can see the different colors of earth, each building upon the one below, the one inside. While we might prefer to hate or get rid …
your daily rock : dreams are resilient
Resiliency is a flow, a springing back. In some contexts the word is used to mean the strength to resist the impact of an adverse event, but more true to its Latin roots, “resiliency” is the “capacity to rebound” or the “act of rebounding” from adversity. There is a big …
your daily rock : walk hand in hand
Sometimes the sh*t hits the fan. Like this week, with bombs at the Boston Marathon and lock downs in the whole city, an earthquake in China, explosions in Texas, floods in the Midwest, tornado warnings, and more. Like Ram Dass, I think “we’re all just walking each other home,” every …
your daily rock : make art
Art changes lives. It even saves lives. We know this. Aristotle has said that “the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” That’s how art saves us–it’s not the form of the art, but the process of it. And yet we …
thinking thursday
After some hiatus, I offer Thinking Thursday once more: mind Meet the first digital generation: For the roughly 4 million Americans born in 1993, these contradictions must constantly be negotiated: public versus private, virtual versus real, active versus passive.“You can totally imagine Goethe doing the same thing, preserving each precious …
your daily rock : forgive and let go
I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness. And about letting go deeply. Why is it so hard to forgive and let go? Is it because we are right and they are wrong? Do we hold so tight to our “rightness” and our need to have that “rightness” validated that …
poets show us how to keep quiet
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without …
your daily rock : forgive yourself first
I recently felt betrayed by someone very close to me. Lies were told. Secrets were created where none had been before. And so much more. My first reaction? I got angry. But not at him (oh, that would come later). I got angry at myself: “How could you have been …
throw open your heart doors.
From my post at 3x3x365 today: This is what the end of a long race should look like. Not horror, not blood, not confusion and hurt and death and more. But joy and the fulfillment of a dream and the end result of hard, hard work to get there. But …
your daily rock : stay the course
One of my favorite short story writers is Ron Carlson. He also wrote a book about the writing of one of his short stories, walking the reader through the whole process. It’s called “Ron Carlson Writes a Story.” In it, among other things, he says the writer is the person …
