Today is Poetry at Work Day. I love my work and I love poetry, so this is clearly one of my favorite days. You can read more about the day here. While the stated “purpose” of this day is to recognize that poetry exists everywhere, and that there are poetic aspects of everything, including one’s work; I […]
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Let me wish you all the best as we step into this New Year. May we each create what we wish to see in the world; may we always be surrounded with beauty and magic, and may each of us be both blessed and a blessing in return. I love the practice Waverly Fitzgerald recommended […]
Continue reading »Isn’t this a fabulous image? It’s a WPA poster created for the Chicago Library in 1941. I can’t say exactly why I’m inordinately fascinated with WPA art posters, but it’s certainly some combination of appreciation for the graphics of that time period and the WPA program itself providing opportunities for artists. In any case, art […]
Continue reading »Wishing you a wondrous spirit-filled, grace-filled, magical Solstice! Beautiful Friends – Whether you’re marking today as a turning point on the seasonal wheel and/or celebrating this as a powerful cosmic window of much-anticipated activation and alignment energies, I wish you a wondrous, spirit-filled, grace-filled, profoundly magical day! Light some candles, offer some prayers, spread some love, […]
Continue reading »The 13th falling on a Friday happens infrequently enough that I always find it worthy of observation. It’s like a lovely little surprise – a celebration randomly inserted into the calendar and when it appears it’s worthy of attention. I know many people are either indifferent, or actually cautious or superstitiously wary, but I most […]
Continue reading »This is National Pollinator Week and I’ve been spending time paying attention to the bees and butterflies, and thinking about Mary Oliver’s admonishment: “Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood…Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say‘Look!’ and laugh in astonishment, […]
Continue reading »Solstice Blessings! Happy Summer! (And, of course, wonderful wintery blessings to all our southern hemisphere friends). I’m entering this season with a sense of delighted anticipation, as though our beautiful spinning Gaia has issued a special invitation for a new journey, a new adventure, a new way of showing up. I feel like I’m on […]
Continue reading »I think perhaps I have come to consider these past twelve months or so as a year of loss. My heart is both tender and curious as I write that. I have of course had many losses in my life – I believe we all have. Some of them mark you irreparably – the loss […]
Continue reading »I spent April writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, sharing my thoughts and reflections on a Ludic Lexicon of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. Ludic is defined as “playful, in an aimless way,” and that was my MO for the challenge – keeping my feet on the joy trail and meandering wherever […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’m sharing my thoughts and reflections on a lexicon (vocabulary specific to a certain subject) of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. Ludic is defined as “playful, in an aimless way” and that’s my plan for approaching this challenge – keeping my feet on the joy trail […]
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Deborah Weber
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