by Havi Brooks | Jan 8, 2012 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write these VPAs 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 my relationship with various...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 29, 2011 | stuff I think about
Over the course of the past year and a half, I have been studying Rally (Rally!). Studying it like I was doing a graduate degree in rallying, which I was. And also studying it because I needed to understand more about its kooky, marvel-filled magic. It took me fifteen...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 13, 2011 | stuff I think about
I never end up doing that thing where people choose a theme for the year. It makes sense, sure. I see how it can be useful to name an intention or invoke a quality. Kind of like my OOD practice. But for whatever reason, that word theme — for me! — seems...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 22, 2011 | my personal practice
This weekend I had a shivanautical epiphany about the concept of HOME, and all the various ways that any one thing can be a home for another thing. If this thing that I did not know was a home is now a home…. Well, then everything changes. “Have nothing in...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 27, 2011 | my personal practice
So I went clew-searching again. And every time I do this, I wonder why I don’t do it a hundred times a day. It’s crazy-helpful and always surprising. These are the clews that I decided were clews. The ones that caught my eye as I was perched on my teaching...