LINES TO LIVE BY
Why I’m writing “Make Light Work in Groups”
The other day, I was sitting outside at a local cafe, visiting with my friend and web designer Barbara Breuner on sunny afternoon so warm I had stripped off two sweaters and was down to a tank top. (I am usually cold, so this was glorious!) Barbara asked me how my...
Two Block Diet as another way to Make Light Work
A couple of years ago, a new neighbour and I got talking at a block party. We both loved growing food, but I didn’t have much land, and she had her hands full with a new baby. In the magical way that conversations can open up possibilities, Julia and I wondered if...
Freedom through a book launch
Somewhere in the flurry of preparation, I got that the book launch was a rite of passage. Writing Make Light Work had called me to rewrite myself. Launching MLW was calling me to change what had been “the story of my life." The easy part was organizing the venue,...
Moving a finger tip
I find it harder to get up these mornings, as the Earth is later to turn towards the sun. My body is heavy, as though bound tight to another world. When I was in my 20s, a yoga teacher used to call us out of the final relaxation by saying, “Move one finger tip.” I...
Possibility
“There is more possibility than most of us are able to fully let in.” Evan Renaerts Do you agree? I notice that I am often busy with smaller things. Rather than being open to possibility and available for what a friend calls “spontaneous combustion” **, I am...
Feeling too blue?
A friend of a friend recently told me this story: Years ago she had been so blue everything was overwhelming. She invented a process that helped her cope: make a list of the tasks on her plate for that day (go to the bank, do laundry, buy groceries... ). Create an...
Q&A
Questions open doors. Questions are quests -- some big, some small. My passion for inner work has come from a longstanding quest to find ways of doing and being that are win, win, win -- for all people, for communities, for our planet. Now my quest is to find ways to...
Change is what we say it is
This week I’ve made the transition to a new and bigger swimming pool -- Vancouver’s just-opened state-of-the-art aquatic centre at Hillcrest Park. For the past 14 years, I’ve swum at Percy Norman -- Vancouver’s first public pool -- which closed its doors last Friday...
Frameworks
“There’s nothing so practical as a good theory.” Kurt Lewin Theoretical frameworks are like maps -- they help us find our way in unfamiliar territory. Here are my top ten, followed by brief intros. I’d love to hear about the frameworks you recommend, through either...