Discovering a Sense of Boundaries

\’\’ Artificial acceptance of people and circumstances we resent Why do we pretend? Why do we stay in situations that hurt us? It’s not that we’re being nice. It’s not that we care. We tell ourselves we’re needed and necessary. We...

Permission to Be What I Am

\’\’ Can you provide it for me? Unfortunately, I’ve agreed that in order for me to be something, I need external validation to be so. Things aren’t real and true because I feel them. They’re true when something bigger than me validates...

Ma and God by Shel Silverstein

God gave us fingers–Ma says, “Use your fork.” God gave us voices–Ma says, “Don’t scream.” Ma says eat broccoli, cereal and carrots. But God gave us tasteys for maple ice cream. God gave us fingers–Ma says, “Use...

The Art in My Business

\’\’I don’t need to be so serious about it. Play. It’s exciting to fool around. Making love isn’t about making a baby. It’s about the sensuality of the process. The play of ideas. Striving for some Thing more, some Thing different,...

The Me I’ve Been Avoiding

\’\’ Me, as a creative being. I can’t pinpoint where or when I made the decision, but at some point I decided – THAT part of me – the very soul of me, is safer being hidden and ignored. If I don’t share it, I can never be hurt or...