Sequoia: healing from the roots up

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."  -Oscar Wilde Manifesto for a wild and free life: Choose to see life as an adventure. Create mini adventures : they could be anything; changing the route you walk to work, trying a new coffee shop, making a point to go to a part of the city, or on a hike, where you have never been before.  See your every day circumstances, places, and people through new eyes.  Break up old habits and create new ones. Change up the neural pathways in your brain, make them work to create new, exciting beliefs and thoughts about your life and existence.  Start somewhere. Take baby steps . Start before you’re ready (you will never be ready!) So just start. Do something new. Brainstorm ways you can live as a free spirit.  Let loose and go for it . Let your hair down if you wear it up. Wear it up in an afro if you normally wear it down. Change things up. Go out dancing. Smile at strangers. Do something...

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than Lord among those without dreams and desires."  -Khalil Gibran Yesterday, it crept up on me. That thing. It has been lurking in my subconscious, held at bay by pernicious optimism. But it will never fully go away, because it is in the roots of me. So it shows up as a passing sorrow, here and there, in my life. It always finds a way in, or out, a way to express its essence. It is the sorrow of not accomplishing my dreams in life. It is usually quiet on a good day. Or when the peace is stronger than the usual tumult. Like after I have spent time in solitude, in nature, meditated, or had a cleansing cry. When I am inspired by someone or something, am reading a good book, or the sun is shining on my skin and soaking in. (Oh! There are many moments!) But the sorrow is still there, underneath. Because there will always be great dreams that I hold in my heart, that I have not yet achieved. I...

"Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all" -Emily Dickinson  Here is my brand new, fresh, free blog! First post, hot off the press! My website subscription ended, along with my attempt to start a coaching business, and I am feeling the desire to get back to my roots, and create an old school blog. Like when I first started blogging in 2005. More accessible, less precious. For posting my pictures and just for writing - because write I must! It doesn't matter to me how many people read what I write, or if I ever publish a book (though I plan to), but write I must!  I am craving simplicity, with every fiber of my being.  The simple, country life is calling me. I want to dig my toes into the earth, ride horses, jump in a cold lake, drive an old beater car, and move more closely with the rising and setting rhythms of the sun. Make art, write. Sit quietly in nature and watc...