by Havi Brooks | Nov 21, 2013 | my personal practice
A number of things have become startlingly clear for me this week… In some moments, this feels more like reassuringly-startlingly-clear and sometimes more like alarmingly-startlingly-clear. Though often both at the same time… accompanied by abrupt laughter that...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 10, 2013 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write a Very Personal Ad (or Vision-Possibility-Anticipation) to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desire. Sometimes wanting feels conflicted or just plain hard, and that’s okay. At the...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 5, 2013 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
I keep looking at the unfinished question. It is half a question. Or a whole question, half-asked. Like a croissant with a bite out of it, just sitting on a plate. Or maybe it is the finished question. Finished as in: ready. Ready for me. Maybe it’s all I need...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 24, 2013 | my personal practice
My name is Billie. Well, this week it is. I am in a band. I live by a bay. I live between a small brook and another brook. Some people call me Billie Brooks. Because of that. I have a box. I have a bell. Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong, but I also believe...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 22, 2013 | my personal practice
I had a dream and in the dream I said thank you. In the dream Hoppy House was suddenly in Hawaii. Hoppy House is what I call my house. It was in Hawaii, and it was on the beach, and it had more windows than it normally does but in all other ways was the same, and the...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 21, 2013 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write these Visions of Possibility and Anticipation to practice asking for what I want. And to get clarity on what that really is, even when asking feels conflicted. I always get useful information about...