Tuesday, November 30, 2010
I’ve got a new home on the Web: gracekerina.com. You’ll find articles, recommendations, and examples about following curiosity to find passion and insight. Most of this year has been spent musing in various ways about my trajectory and what I’d like it to be. The new website is one of the results — and a […]
More than a year ago I wrote an article on writing out conversations between myself and the wiser part of me – “Conversations Between Me and U.” The tool of having dialogues with myself has been so useful, and in such surprising ways, that I want to tell you how it’s evolved. While exploring Lora […]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
It’s easy to fall into step behind someone else’s vision of success. The lifting strut of the popular mayor as he chats his way through his kingdom. The long line-up in front of the restaurant where the five-star chef concocts her masterpieces. The buzz. The fame. The crowds. The face on the billboard. If I’m […]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
We think we can’t see. We think we are blind. We think we are looking at something tiny and limiting and there’s nothing there. But the world is chock full of tricks. The eye, the mind, the spirit, expand and contract depending on how we look and where we look and what we want to […]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A journal is a record, a recording of something over time. Define that “something” to fit you and your journal becomes exquisitely compelling, beckons and breaks new ground, takes on a life of its own, leads you to temptation, flings you into the arms of insight. Instances of glory. Weather. Lists of insects sighted. A […]
“My heartfelt belief was that all meals should be eaten hunched over a desk with your nose in a book and everything you were eating chopped up and eaten out of a bowl with a spoon, the better to scoop it up without having to lift your eyes from the page.” ~ Polly Horvath, The […]
Thanks to the Style Statement blog for posting an article I wrote called “Style Statement Hero.”
Oh, maps … oops. Sorry, I had to stop and wipe the drool off my keyboard. If you want to hypnotize me or calm me down, just shove a map in front of my face. My eyes will glaze, I’ll acquire a foolish grin, and my hand will reach involuntarily toward the map. And if […]
Need a lift? Freshen up by taking mini-holidays throughout the day. What gives you a hit of joy? Perhaps it’s watching a three-minute digital slide show of your five-year-old. Or reading today’s post from a blogger who’s guaranteed to make you laugh. Or unscrewing the lid of a vial of lavender oil. Consider the physical […]
“In a field I am the absence of field.” ~ Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole, Reasons for Moving… A question is like an empty space. We ask. We wait. We wonder. We make room. We stop resisting. In the process, by creating a nothing with a curling, spiraling question mark at its heart, we fall […]
