A few weeks ago a dear friend made a passing comment that their soul was empty. It was one short sentence in a big long conversation & yet it was this comment that I thought about all the way home that night. I resolved that I would try to encourage this person with a series of text messages that I titled “finding your soul”. Well we very quickly reached the limits that SMS’ing would allow & I thought that when I finally got back into blog world, I would visit these thoughts & maybe expand a little on them. So here goes…. (more…)
Hey there
I’ve been away; I mean, I’ve been around physically, but in my spirit I’ve been away, contemplating, thinking, reflecting, basically trying to get my house in order. That is never an easy gig, but at least on one level, it explains why I haven’t been writing the blog articles; I think that the changes in my life of late have fuelled this blogging hiatus; change is never easy, & the most recent bout of changes have taken up almost all of my creative & emotional energy. So like the proverbial winter bear, I have withdrawn to my cave & stared at the world as it has drifted by.
One event that caused more than a moment of pause in my life has been the death of my mother just a little while ago. (more…)