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In: Health and Wellness, Personal Growth and Sp...

“A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. When I heard Secretary Kennedy say this, I realized that it instantly summed up the last 5 years of my life. When you are unhealthy, you don’t have the time to dream about anything else other than getting back to a state of health. Other than limping my business along, I have had no other dreams to pursue other than understanding and getting to the root cause of the psoriasis I’ve experienced in a severe form since my parents became ill and died. One of the reasons I’mRead More →

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In: Creative and Studio Life

My studio is located in a pottery studio, with pottery classes ongoing through out the week. I’ve taken two classes now, and I am beginning to develop wonderful friendships with the instructors and students. I can’t emphasize enough how nourishing it is to be around a bunch of creative women that are mostly retired and a little younger than my mother would be had she lived. I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed the company of older women over the last 10 years, but especially the last four since my mom passed in 2021. When we moved to Roanoke, I was busy with my fatherRead More →

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In: Human Design

We’re taught from a young age to respect authority. Mentors, experts, people who “know better” because they have either experience or education. But there is so much information about there now due to Ai and the internet, how do you know what is authentically correct for you? I stopped navigating by outer authority 10 years ago. Now, I look for information that is out there, but if it doesn’t sit right with me over a little time, I move on until something feels right. Your inner voice, when clear, is the most powerful decision maker you have. I believe I’m tapping into an intelligence orRead More →

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In: Human Design

I’m a Human Design Guide, and I’m starting a simple weekly series here. Each Monday, I’ll share the current Human Design transit of the Sun and Earth, and how I’m personally noticing it show up in real life. Human Design helps us tune into both our own natural rhythm and the shifting energy in the collective—and my hope is this space helps you do just that, too. Want to learn more about Human Design? Jovian Archive and MyBodygraph Sun: Gate 53, Gate of Beginnings Earth: Gate 54, Gate of Ambition Transits for Week of July 6-12 I have a jewelry studio in the same buildingRead More →

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In: Health and Wellness

Are my choices today moving toward life, or am I just running from death? Is there another point of view to consider? Yesterday I read an article about that smell some older people develop. You know the one. I don’t want that signature scent to be mine as I get older. So, what to do? The article said mushrooms can help. They prevent a certain compound from oxidizing in our skin oils. This compound is behind that smell that you can’t cover with cologne. That got me thinking about fungi. Mushrooms are liminal organisms. They live where life and death meet. They break down whatRead More →

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In: Creative and Studio Life, Life Reflections

Benson. Boone. Benny brings up a lot of emotional juice, doesn’t he? To the cynics, he’s suspect. To the ones that love him, he’s a fantasy. Either way, he draws a line in the sand, doesn’t he?. Me? I like him. My husband is bewildered by my fascination with him. But he’s not too fond of pop music. I’m not known as a music aficionado. I discovered Robert Plant in 2007 when he did an album with Allison Krause. Somehow I missed Led Zeppelin. But I like what I like, and with Benson, I like the whole package. He didn’t have a miserable childhood, yetRead More →

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My father-in-law died in March, and he was the last of our parents to pass in the last 4 years. We’ve been bracing for grief for a long time. It hurts the body to stay in a state of bracing for impact uninterrupted for so long. The personality develops coping strategies. These strategies help it stay functional while dealing with care-taking responsibilities and familial duty. Life continues to move on, even when everything else feels like it’s spinning out of control. Off and on, over the last few years, I would take my emotional leave. And The Squatter moved in. She arrived during my father’sRead More →