Winged Motivation

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet." ~ Neil Gaiman Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible things.”. “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ~Through the Looking Glass People d…

"It's All just a Big, Freaky, Wonderful, Game!" ~Elizabeth Gilbert In Elizabeth Gilbert's book, "Big Magic" she discusses if it's better to be a trickster, like Buggs Bunny or a martyr, like Sir Thomas More. I'm not POSITIVE that I want to be a trickster. But I'm sure that I DON'T want to be a martyr, which apparently is my natural inclination. Well, WHO would really want to play the role of "victim?" I'm sure I don't. Yet that concept creeps up over and over unrecognized, until Whoosh! I SEE …

I have been deeply in love with my life here on the island, so close to nature, so easily able to observe the living world. It has fed my heart. I feel nurtured. I’m reminded how amazing and miraculous life ALWAYS is by slowing down and just...seeing it. It's moving. It takes my breath away. I watch porpoises swim right next to my house. I see and hear large flocks of eider ducks in the fall and winter. I watch eagles and deer, so comfortable, so at peace in their skins, in their home. In MY ho…

Summertime on the Point Sometimes I think I’m completely adjusted to my new life, but then I know - it hasn’t even begun. I filed for divorce. It was the right thing to do for my own health and happiness and also for his. Though we’ve been some type of companions for over a decade, we were never husband and wife, not the way I define it at least. So the time is upon me to redefine, in a kind, honest and loving way, how I choose to be on the earth. Who I am, What I will spend my hours doing, H…

I have seen eagles in a "Death Spiral." I've seen it 3 times now, once last spring, but twice in the last week or so. Seeing something so dynamic takes my breath away! Any normal human would be moved by such a sight. I was sitting in my studio writing in my journal and planning my day, which I do almost every morning, when I saw them. It was as if the universe decided that my window was a movie screen and played the scene out for me...only for me. The giant birds circled each other getting clos…