by Havi Brooks | Dec 30, 2018 | my personal practice
{Craft + Room} At a surreal art fair that took place over a series of backyards, I went there with my friend Charlie (not really a friend, not really named Charlie), he was looking for Christmas presents and I was looking for something un-namable that I still have not...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 25, 2014 | stuff I think about
I was reading a piece and the writer mentioned she’d stopped writing during [hard life thing], and how she needs to start again, because that’s what writers do in order to be writers, she said. Many words bubbling up in response. They must wait. And at the...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 28, 2013 | stuff I think about
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...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 20, 2013 | 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. With the glorious (glorrrrrrrrrrrious!) return of the wham boom. What worked? Change your place, change your luck. As we always...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 1, 2013 | my personal practice
My New Year’s Eve ritual: An early Happy Hour with a friend at a gorgeous hotel bar. Quiet. Whiskey. Delicious food. Laughter. Pommes frites for dessert. I bring a small notebook and I write three small letters to myself, one to a page. The size of the notebook...