morning to night magic

do not try to serve the whole world or do anything grandiose. instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is yours alone to sing falls into your open cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. only then will you know how to give yourself to the world so worthy of rescue. – martha postlewaite * *thanks to my beloved friend and traveling companion who read this to me this morning photo credit: … View Post

endings, always the beginning of something

“The end is never the end. It’s always the beginning of something.” – Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden Last December when I announced that I would be scaling back my work life so that I might focus time and energy on my creative projects, it meant that Squam HQ would also have to scale back. Thus, yesterday was Forrest’s last day with Squam as he is also ready to move on to new adventures. That’s the funny thing about endings, they always herald new … View Post

BROOKLYN TWEED starts the celebration!

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves. ~Wendell Berry Our abiding love for Brooklyn Tweed is well-documented. BT is a company that upholds the very definition of what it means to create community, … View Post

a most wonderful time of the year

The world is spinning as it ever does and, depending on what you are focused on, it can appear harsh or gentle, bleak or bright, full of strife or full of love. Of course, as we know, it is all of the above all the time. Today our attention is on a few of the reasons why this can feel like a most wonderful time of the year: Around the world, communities, families and individuals are coming together to celebrate kindness, generosity of spirit, light and love. … View Post

sing it out!

You have your own note to sound, and you are sounding it with greater power and beauty all the time.”  Ursula Nordstrom There really isn’t anything more challenging in this world then to share with the world who we truly are. For many of us, this is the work of a lifetime. For some, it’s just too overwhelming to be that vulnerable. And then, for those rare few — there is nothing holding them back from full personal expression. If you are somewhere in the middle … View Post

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