Born on a Thursday #27 – Finding Home

God, I love my peeps here. Honestly, I’m not that tough. Or maybe, I’m just tired of being tough. I am surrounded by a lot of people who love me, and that’s my choice. It’s taken years to cultivate my relationships – and then some of my new relationships have fallen into place so easily I can hardly believe it! Though I do believe it, because I experience it.

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Friendly Forests!

When Dr. Simard starts talking about fungi, the first thing I thought of was a neural network. How cool!

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Luck, Birds, Toys and Angels

Does balance dull things? Hmmm. Skimming the surface is not how I like to play, I like to dive deep and long. Maybe my balance is the cold mountain air!

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Born on a Thursday #23: Other Words for Beautiful

One morning I wrote I needed 100 other words for beautiful, since lately, beautiful is the word that I find myself using to describe life. There are more than 100 words listed here: comely, attractive, handsome, seemly, becoming, sightly, eye-filling, pulchritudinous, beauteous, fair, pretty, bonny, shapely, well-proportioned, glamorous, sexy, charming, engaging, captivating, enthralling, enchanting, alluring, […]

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Born on a Thursday #21 – Saturday is the new Thursday

I know it’s Saturday. It has been a super hectic week. Lots of plans were made, and then many had to be changed because I couldn’t do them all. This Saturday, I decided to rest. I napped a lot. Vacuumed the floors. Did things around the house to ground myself. It was the perfect thing […]

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I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends

Asking for help can open our hearts. Yes, it is true, it is very hard to make money from music (or writing for that matter) anymore, when it is so easy to copy. As a musician and a writer and a teacher, I have struggled with the issues of having my work “taken” without a […]

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An Astronaut and His Guitar

Commander Chris Hadfield recorded his own version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity while in orbit on board the International Space Station. This makes me so happy! My heart feels so light. Amazing! Of course, I love David Bowie’s original as well. Meanwhile, back on Earth, carbon dioxide levels have reached an average daily level above 400 […]

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