Wish #261: thank you, last year me.

by | Jul 6, 2014 | my personal practice

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. I write a Very Personal Ad each week to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. The point isn’t getting my wish (though cool things have emerged from wishing), the point is learning about my...

Friday Chicken #303: blink blink

by | May 16, 2014 | updates & announcements

Where I cover the good and the hard in my week, visiting the non-preachy side of ritual and self-reflection. It is Friday and we are here. {a breath for Friday} What worked this week? Playing the game of X Things That Don’t Completely Suck. I played this at the...

Something I have forgotten to say.

by | May 1, 2014 | my personal practice

For five years now I have been writing wishes and sharing them here every week. I’ve done a lot of thinking, here and on my own, about how scary and fraught it can be to reveal wishes, even to myself, never mind TO THE INTERNET. How wishing itself is intensely...

In my dream I said thank you.

by | 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...
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