Fashioning an inspired life
A woman is dodging puddles as if stepping into one wouldn’t mean simply dirtying her pristine black leather boots and khaki trench coat, but rather, would mean falling into another world. Her heel pierces through the surface and is plunged deep down into sensuous saunas. Shoes melt off tired feet and her frigid skin is made luminous by hot springs filled with steaming bodies. Bodies outlined…
Explain yourself. It’s something we are required to do often. In job interviews, on websites, at “networking events” or when simply meeting a friend of a friend. There’s nothing wrong with it, we all crave context, some grounding in the space we inhabit with another, but, for many of us, it can pose challenges. I experienced this the other day when meeting with a potential collaborator and…
A window open to the smell of leaves burning in candied tempo. Unbottled air that’s been biting at the sky for its turn to unfurl in crispy drier sheets on the bricked buildings holding people steady in their homes. Static against skin, the air meets the warmth of the heater below the window busy chugging the first drafts of warmth through the building’s brass toned organs, spaces that have forgotten the gray felt of overcast skies…
We’re all just trying to move beyond that empty void that sits in our stomachs, rising up as an unwelcome poison when the anxiety gets to be too much. It presses its clammy hands on our shoulders and we do our best to ignore its presence, shrugging it off and chugging forward with inept strides. We chase it out as it wraps around and drops…
Sometimes you become detached from ideas, passions and interests with which you were once enthralled, obsessed and consumed by. It could be that you find new ideas that are much more accurate and expansive, and they rightly foist out your ill-guided assumptions and notions. Or it could be that your interests shift — what was once mesmerizing, dulls with time. Or it could be that other…
When was the last time you felt a moment of total elation? Feet off the ground, body weightless elation. Free of self-consciousness, free of worry, free of the impending burden of tomorrow. Has it been awhile? A recent computer clean-out brought me to a trip down memory lane. Suddenly, I was knee deep in photos, wondering that most annoying phrase; where did the time go? But…