stars, beans, and luck – building an expanding universe

February 23, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

When you create, creation keeps happening.

Top Image – Star Kaleidoscope by Graham Parker

When all that’s here is change

December 30, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

I am completely aware that the only constant in life is change, but this time, it’s staring me in the face. The lake is different. The sky is different. The owl hooting was even from a different place in the woods.

Getting on with Getting on

December 10, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

This is a reminder to myself – I posted this last week regarding bereavement: Yesterday was strange and uncomfortable, but in the end, I made sure to paint and top it off with song and community. Music is the balm for all of life’s troubles.

AFP Breaks My Heart ~ American Sentence (lost) Day 85 of 108

October 25, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Amanda Fucking Palmer blows my mind and my heart. She is relentless in her raw vulnerability, an inspiration, an ardent champion for humanity in all its passion and messiness and ugliness and real-ness.

There is no intermission. Only life.

Photo of Amanda Palmer in Ireland by Stephanie Zakas