by Havi Brooks | Aug 24, 2023 | my personal practice
Getting clues from how my very tall friends (sunflowers and mullein) are effortlessly flourishing… Happy week! It is Thursday for me and possibly Friday for you, this week’s essay is delayed because I had to nap it out this week and then was in too much of a big...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 24, 2021 | my personal practice
Image: Three glass jars filled with labneh made in my tiny trailer kitchen, rolled in spices, preserved in golden olive oil. Behind them an array of cooking utensils framed by blue New Mexico sky. The Labneh Maker is a proxy identity I called on in a moment of need,...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 23, 2021 | my personal practice
Noticing During zoom yoga with my friend Cate, she suggested that we try noticing what we’re not noticing. This reverberated in me like the perfect stone skipping across the waters of my consciousness. How do you notice what you’re not noticing? It is a striking...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 24, 2011 | my personal practice
I am fairly certain that I am a bear. In my head. Let it be known, for the record and for those reading who worry about me and take things literally, that I am very much not a bear. But you know what I would love? A cave! Berries! And really, mostly: permission to...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 26, 2010 | updates & announcements
Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. Last week’s...
