Monthly Question
I’m interested in tracking a thread for longer than a minute. It’s part of a healthy brain and heart. It also feel counter-cultural these days to commit to anything at all—even a question. Each month, I ask a lifestyle question that has been burning in me and likely in those around me, and/or at large. I take 28 days to chew on it and live with it. Then I emerge with some imperfect answers, resources and insights.
I ask it.
I answer it.
I continue to live with it because tidy bows aren’t real.
December 2023
Can I Be Here and Also There?
Listen to this 1-2 minute profound Instagram share from Leah Manaema of CoCulture Communications. I’ve returned to it over and over. Every single sentence landed. Hybrid Poem, let’s go. I was brushing her hair out at the kitchen table before bed, combing through the knots and her groans because we forget and a week later it leads to tangles that hurt an…
Tracking:
November 2023
How Do We Resist a Sitting Culture?
I want to talk about being in a modern body. It’s strange to do so right now. I can’t untangle myself from the larger world stage… and I don’t want to. That weaving is important and humane. How can I talk about agility in a body (or my own body) when there are so many bodies in the path of violence right now? I’m not sure, other than to do it because—in…
Tracking: I explored a posture prompt on everyday movement and the narrative prompt of “I am a person who…” and then landed, for now, on This Instrument Wants to Be Played.
October 2023
When Does Self-Improvement Go Too Far?
Maybe it’s because I’m 44. Middling is, after all, coming with a whole slew of new felt-senses and experiences—anyone else? I want to share a surprising and welcome one. “It’s okay,” has become my internal theme song—in my kitchen, driving, receiving disappointing news, scampering along forest trails, in the middle of an argument with my husband. I don’…
Tracking: I explored some a posture prompt around embodied visualization and the narrative power of sharing that with others in 10% micro-shift form and then landed, for now, on Art as a Way In.
September 2023
Is it Possible to Live Without Chronic Overwhelm?
My body told me so. Sixteen months ago, I was sitting on a playground under the sun at a preschool Mother’s Day performance. My daughter Bo was belting her song but I felt as vacant as a piece of cardboard. I commanded myself: Sit down on the picnic blanket, Take a sip of your water, Don’t forget to smile when Bo brings you the ornament she made.
Tracking: I dove into what it means to try on a different pose as well as my favorite prompt to start with in a circle and then spiraled down into the importance of specificity and how to be in your own discernment during this era.