by Havi Brooks | Jun 7, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
This week I’m marking one hundred consecutive weeks of my practice of writing Very Personal Ads. And I’ve been thinking about all the beautiful wishes that have been wished for, and about everything that has happened as a part of this. We can talk about...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 2, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
My uncle Svevo, who also happens to be my favorite person in the entire world, takes more joy and delight in the unexpected than anyone I know. Whenever he visits Hoppy House, I know that he’ll bring along crumpled paper bags filled with marvelous and unlikely...
by Havi Brooks | May 24, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
The other day I was in a dance store (is that even a word?), getting some teaching clothes. The woman working there asked me where I dance and I said, oh I don’t dance. Actually it was more like this: Oh! No no no no no. I don’t actually DANCE. As if DANCE...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 28, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
It seemed like the kind of day for some permission slips. Permission to not know. Or not know how. Permission to not have to follow everything to the end, whatever that is. Walking out of the movie is okay. So is changing the project. Permission to wish for aspects of...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 12, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
This is a thing I picked up from Tapas about six years ago. It’s completely brilliant in a fractal flowers sort of way. The idea is this: Everything you’re choosing to do for yourself probably has some sort of purpose or intention. But don’t stop...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 23, 2011 | my personal practice, working on patterns & habits
A little raw. A little messy. I spent the weekend running the Shiva Nata teacher training, doing insane amounts of brain training and pattern rewriting, and everything is jumbled. In a really good way. All the snow globes have been shaken, and everything is sifting...
