looking at the future from the past

What my 80 year-old self told me about being a creative person.

What would your 80 year-old self tell you?

image: sunset pods © holly troy 9.2025

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in-between days

Mom’s birthday falling on a Lunar Eclipse this year was fitting. The in-between time of the Lunar Eclipse and next week’s Solar Eclipse already feels like something has changed for me on a deep level. “I shared a little while back that I was still coming out of the underworld. It feels like now I am closer to the mouth of the cave.”

image: studio in the morning © holly troy 2025

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Letter from a Reluctant Cave Dweller

What are your creative happenings? What are you loving right now? How are you staying sane in these times? Are you staying sane?

image: hot summer day in reading glasses © holly troy 2025

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Why the body? – the notion still holds true

“I am coming to believe that we ignore our bodies at the peril of not only ourselves, but, our planet. We need to remember that our lives are lived not only in our heads and on our computer screens. We are beings in bodies experiencing a physical life. We physically live on Earth. Our disconnect with the planet mirrors our disconnect with our bodies – we cannot live without a planet nor our bodies. (Common sense, but . . . ) Paying attention is important – denial is dangerous.”

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Those Eyes

american sentence reader response

image: those kitty eyes © Holly Troy 2025

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